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1877 г. - по време на Руско-турската освободителна война (1877-1878 г.) пет хиляди казаци влизат в Карлово, където са посрещнати тържествено от местното българско население. В рапорт до великия княз Николай Николаевич ген. Й. Гурко предлага Предният отряд да атакува армията на Сюлейман паша, преди тя да е успяла да се съсредоточи. 1879 г. - в Пловдив излиза първият брой на в. Народний глас , който от 1881 г. е орган на източнорумелийската Народна партия. О�
World-renowned science fiction novelist Kim Stanley Robinson is a world builder beyond compare. His political acumen makes his speculations feel alive in the present as well as laying out a not-so-radiant future. He is the author of more than 20 novels and the repeat winner of most major speculative fiction prizes; his celebrated trilogies include
Three Californias,
Mars Trilogy: Green, and
Blue. In an earlier life he was a PhD student of Fredric Jameson, and he wrote his dissertation on the novels of Philip K. Dick. He is also, as this interview shows, an acute taxonomist not just of SF but also of its roots in and its relation to a longer, larger realist tradition.
Dear 22nd Century,
Is there life on Mars?
Human life, I mean. Or does a pioneering percentage of you have your heads in the clouds of a closer planet instead?
It’s not the sort of thing we take surveys about, because we’ve got a lot on our political plate right now. But if you were to ask the average 21st century Joe which planet we are most likely to establish permanent habitation on first, Mars would win in a landslide. It’s just a given. It’s NASA’s official plan has been ever since the first President Bush announced we’d land on the planet by, ahem, 2019 as well as Elon Musk’s highly theoretical plan for 2024. We’ve watched and read