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Author
Index
T |
Paul
Theroux |
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Title
Index
O |
O-Zone |
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| Year |
1986 |
| Publisher |
Penguin |
| ISBN |
0140099891 |
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Synopsis
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It's
New Year in
paranoid,
computer-rich New
York, and a group
of Owners has jet-rotored
out to party in
O-Zone.
New York is a
sealed city.
Visits to the
eerie, radioactive
wasteland of
O-Zone are now
rarer than moon
landings.
The people dumped
there, 'aliens'
officially do not
exist. For
Hooper Allbright
and Fizzy,
Theroux's
futuristic
Robinson Crusoes,
the trip sets in
motion an
adventure of
undreamed of
desire and terror
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Review
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O-ZONE
is typical of
science fiction
written by
mainstream authors
in that the
futuristic details
are not especially
imaginative.
Theroux’s brave
new world is
basically an
exaggeration of
the present. The
real concerns are
the same ones he
has had throughout
his career; the
fate of the Third
World, the sins of
industrial
nations, and the
motives of exiles
and immigrants. In
fact this may be
his most
representative
work. Theroux
works the
Owner/Alien
dichotomy for all
it is worth,
throwing out pithy
insights on almost
every page. The
only problem is
that there are
simply too many
pages, and the
first one-hundred
or so read very
slowly indeed.
Nevertheless,
those willing to
put in a little
extra effort will
find O-ZONE to be
a fascinating and
thought-provoking
novel. |
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Fountains
of
Enceladus
Recent
Cassini
images of
Saturn's
moon
Enceladus
backlit by
the sun
show the
fountain-like
sources of
the fine
spray of
material
that
towers
over the
south
polar
region.
The image
was taken
looking
more or
less
broadside
at the
"tiger
stripe"
fractures
observed
in earlier
Enceladus
images. It
shows
discrete
plumes of
a variety
of
apparent
sizes
above the
limb of
the moon.
The
greatly
enhanced
and
colorized
image
shows the
enormous
extent of
the
fainter,
larger-scale
component
of the
plume.
Imaging
scientists
believe
that the
jets are
geysers
erupting
from
pressurized
subsurface
reservoirs
of liquid
water
above 273
degrees
Kelvin (0
degrees
Celsius).
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Credit:
NASA
Image of
the day
archive |
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