{"id":15837,"date":"2013-03-09T23:28:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T22:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bl0rg.net\/imaginos\/?p=15837"},"modified":"2013-03-09T23:32:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T22:32:19","slug":"the-dog-stars-is-not-a-novel-for-the-faint-at-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bl0rg.net\/imaginos\/2013\/03\/09\/the-dog-stars-is-not-a-novel-for-the-faint-at-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dog Stars is not a novel for the faint at heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Venant d’attaquer la lecture du roman post-cataclysmique de Peter Heller The Dog Stars<\/em><\/span>, je me suis senti en terrain tr\u00e8s<\/em> familier \u00e0 la lecture de ce passage :<\/p>\n

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A really mean gun nut. He says he can pot a man from a mile off. He has done. I’ve seen it more than once.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u00c7a m’a en effet aussit\u00f4t \u00e9voqu\u00e9 un passage d’un des rares textes d’ambiance d’Aftermath!, \u00e0 un point tel que je me suis tout d’abord demand\u00e9 si les phrases n’\u00e9taient pas fortement similaires. Mais je suis all\u00e9 me rafra\u00eechir la m\u00e9moire, et ce n’est pas le cas, la phrase d’Aftermath! \u00e9tant la suivante :<\/p>\n

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They’ve seen the old man march a stream of slugs from that rifle up a man’s chest and into his face, firing at 100 yards.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

J’en suis presque d\u00e9\u00e7u : \u00e7’aurait \u00e9t\u00e9 un joli clin d’\u0153il, d’autant plus que le sous-titre du bouquin est A novel about the end of the world which makes you glad to be alive<\/em>, et que je me disais justement en le d\u00e9couvrant que \u00e7’aurait pu, si le roman est \u00e0 la hauteur dudit sous-titre, \u00eatre une lecture \u00e0 recommander \u00e0 tous ces joueurs qui se complaisaient dans l’imagination d’une troisi\u00e8me guerre mondiale dans les ann\u00e9es ’80, alors que la menace en \u00e9tait encore bien r\u00e9elle (je pense en particulier \u00e0 ceux qui bavaient devant les listes d’armes de Twilight: 2000 ou les photos de flingues du Morrow Project, en r\u00e9action \u00e0 quoi Greg Costikyan avait \u00e0 l’\u00e9poque \u00e9crit son jeu Nuclear Winter<\/em><\/span><\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Venant d’attaquer la lecture du roman post-cataclysmique de Peter Heller The Dog Stars, je me suis senti en terrain tr\u00e8s familier \u00e0 la lecture de ce passage : A really mean gun nut. He says he can pot a man … Continuer la lecture →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,6,34,9],"tags":[310,217,1112,944,187],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bl0rg.net\/imaginos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bl0rg.net\/imaginos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bl0rg.net\/imaginos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bl0rg.net\/imaginos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bl0rg.net\/imaginos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15837"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bl0rg.net\/imaginos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15840,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bl0rg.net\/imaginos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15837\/revisions\/15840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bl0rg.net\/imaginos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bl0rg.net\/imaginos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bl0rg.net\/imaginos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}