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Paul J. McAuley
Paul J. McAuley

Paul J. McAuley is a renowned British science fiction author born on April 23, 1955. His works are known for their profound science fiction imagination and imaginative visions of the future, covering multiple sub-genres of science fiction, including space opera, cyberpunk, and post-apocalyptic themes. more

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“The space age is thirty thousand years old. Men have moved from star to star in search of wealth and glory; the Gaean Reach encompasses a perceptible fraction of the galaxy. Trade routes thread space like capillaries in living tissue; thousands of worlds have been colonized, each different from every other, each working its specific change upon men who live there. Never has the human race been less homogenous.”

“Gödel’s scheme has nothing to do with mathematics in and of itself. It concerns false approaches (i.e. non-ontological approaches) to the definition of what math is. The incompleteness theorems proved that such approaches are doomed to failure. Gödel didn’t prove a single thing about what math is. What he proved is what’s it’s not. He proved that it definitely isn’t manmade.”

“«Eppure dev’esserci una correlazione. Lo scienziato che gioca col destino dei draghi, e i draghi che si organizzano in segreto per fondare un nuovo regno. Sta accadendo tutto nello stesso momento, vedete? Se i draghi sono sempre esistiti, allora perché è solo oggi, in quest’epoca, che hanno deciso di muoversi? Forse perché è adesso che si sentono davvero minacciati.» «Quando si tratta del dottor Brandi, la minaccia si estende anche a noi.» Disse Eleonora. «Hai ragione, Ale. I draghi sono coloro che potrebbero salvarci.»”