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Burn (2005)

av James Patrick Kelly

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Nebula Award Winner Hugo Award Nominee Burn is James Patrick Kelly at his best, and there's nothing better." --Connie Willis, author ofDoomsday Book The tiny planet Morobe's Pea has been sold and renamed Walden. The new owner has some interesting ideas. Voluntary simplicity will rule in the Transcendent State; Walden is destined to become a paradise covered in lush new forests. But even believers find temptations in the black markets; non-believers are willing to defend their ideals with fire. Walden's only hope may lie with a third option: a very unlikely alien intervention. InBurn, James Patrick Kelly (Think Like a Dinosaur) delivers an innovative, entertaining, and morally-complex vision of the perils of idealism.… (mer)
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Ce roman court de science-fiction écrit par James Patrick Kelly est un petit bijou d'inventivité et d'humanité. En moins de deux cents pages, l'auteur parvient à mettre en place une société bien particulière, sur une planète nommée Walden, nouvellement peuplée par des humains qui l'ont achetée afin d'y vivre coupés des progrès modernes et volontairement privés de contact avec les autres mondes. Ces humains s'imposent à la population locale des Pukpuks qui vit dans le désert et qui a vu son habitat réduit de plus en plus par l'extension des forêts peuplées d'arbres génétiquement modifiés afin qu'ils poussent et se multiplient très rapidement. Prosper Grégoire Leung, surnommé Spur, est un de ces humains, engagé volontaire comme pompier afin de lutter contre les incendies le plus souvent allumés par des Pukpuks qui se suicident en s'immolant au milieu des forêts. En convalescence dans un hôpital à la suite de graves brûlures, il parvient sans trop le vouloir à prendre contact avec un homonyme habitant sur une autre planète, qui s'avère être un jeune adolescent de douze ans appelé à devenir le dirigeant de son monde. Ce dernier se rend quelques jours après sur Walden afin de rencontrer Spur. Cette visite impromptue que Spur prend pour de la simple curiosité s’avérera en fait être une opération humaniste de préservation des habitants originels de la planète et elle permettra à Spur d'affiner ses réflexions sur son mode de vie et sur la nécessaire confrontation aux autres. Une très belle histoire, finement ciselée par son auteur. ( )
  Patangel | Feb 13, 2021 |
I was perfectly willing to suspend judgment on this book... and I did, refusing to look up any reviews until long after I was thinking about what I read.

I wanted to like this a lot more than I did. I don't mind pastoral-type SF all that much, but it has to be rich in the internal life and lots of great ideas being bandied about. The fact this was a reaction to Walden, a perfect Luddite if there ever was one, was also fine by me. I had problems with the guy, too, but not all the way. I like nature, I like technology. I do not want to simplify my life so much that I lose out on the necessities. At all. James Patrick Kelly basically makes the same argument in this novella.

Firefighting on this regressive world. If only there hadn't been such restrictions, more could have been saved.

I don't think there's any kind of counter-argument. Not realistically. Or at least, not in this century.

So what do we have to fall back on within the story? Characterization, a little worldbuilding, a kinda meandering live-your-life-tale that fits more in FAVOR of Walden than the counterargument, and then the big action and the reveals after the fire.

Of course, that's where I'm most interested. The many worlds and post-near-singularity galactic civilization. You know, uploaded minds. That kind of thing.

As a mirror to all that happened on the planet before, it kinda hammers a nail in the coffin.

There are some open-ended questions that make me squirm, too, regarding his wife, but that kinda detracts from the rest of the novella rather than adding a new dimension. I did kinda like the MC before that. A memory wipe is a total PKD issue and it might have been better explored in much greater detail throughout the tale or left out of the end entirely. It just raises way too many questions and concerns regarding all these Walden people.

Such as the idea that they might all be in a zoo.

Maybe that's the point. I WANTED to like this more, but the ideas are kinda all over the place and I'd like to come away from this story chewing on a single good idea rather than a number of unsatisfyingly explored ones.

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  bradleyhorner | Jun 1, 2020 |
James Patrick Kelly has given us a tightly written novella centered on ecological warfare and the clash of cultures. I happen to read it the same week I was reading "Hippie Food" by Jonathan Kauffman and I found some resonance between them. I'm from Pennsylvania so William Penn is scooting around here somewhere too, and the Amish.

Spur's grandparents were back-to-the-landers, (lander as in hippies not as in spacecraft). Somewhere around 2400, Chairman Jack Winter bought a planet, named it Walden, and invited homesteaders to join him in his quest to preserve traditional humankind by which he mostly meant not bio-enhanced or telepathic. Chairman Winter and successive waves of settlers arrived on Walden, which already had the remnants of the original human settlers, nicknamed pukpuks, and went about setting up an agrarian society that turned its back on the ways of the outer worlds.

Chairman Winter has untold wealth (and an extraordinary long life, it seems) and has built railroads and continent-wide communications networks to support his colony. Yet, as in all communities everywhere, children and grandchildren are bitter about the choices their families made that compel them now to be farmers. The pukpuks too, are angry at the encroachment of the settlers on what they consider to be their land. Chairman Winter has declared that the world should be forest and, in one of those unethical things that dictators do, broke his own rules and planted enhanced trees to cover the planet and strangle the pukpuks. (This is only a novella so Mr. Kelly doesn't have time to point to these new trees as invasive species that will cause big trouble to farmers down the line.)

The pukpuks retaliate, supported by sympathizers from the communities, and start setting massive forest fires. The novella opens with Spur in the hospital recovering from burns he received as a firefighter. He's being treated by a medbot operated by a doctor on a far planet – another of Chairman Winter's compromises.

Part of it was my background but most of it is Mr. Kelly's tight controlled writing. I was quickly caught up in Spur's story and the way it unfolds. I think that you will enjoy it too and recommend you give it a try.

I received a review copy of "Burn" by James Patrick Kelly (Tachyon) through NetGalley.com. It was originally published by Tachyon in 2005, winning the Nebula award for Best Novella in 2006. It has been reissued by Tachyon in June 2018 with a new afterword by the author. ( )
  Dokfintong | Jun 9, 2018 |
It’s an interesting blend of inspirations, Walden and the Dalai Lama and Backdraft and suicide bombers. Comes together nicely. ( )
  Jon_Hansen | Jun 3, 2018 |
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Il est mille simples témoignages par lesquels nous pouvons juger nos existences ; comme, par exemple, que le soleil qui mûrit mes haricots, illumine en même temps tout un système de terres comme la nôtre. M’en fussé-je souvenu que cela m’eût évité quelques erreurs. Ce n’est pas le jour sous lequel je les ai sarclés. Les étoiles sont les sommets de quels merveilleux triangles ! Quels êtres distants et différents dans les demeures variées de l’univers contemplent la même au même moment !
La nature et la vie humaine sont aussi variées que nos divers tempéraments. Qui dira l’aspect sous lequel se présente la vie à autrui ? Pourrait-il se produire miracle plus grand que pour nous de regarder un instant par les yeux les uns des autres ?

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Nebula Award Winner Hugo Award Nominee Burn is James Patrick Kelly at his best, and there's nothing better." --Connie Willis, author ofDoomsday Book The tiny planet Morobe's Pea has been sold and renamed Walden. The new owner has some interesting ideas. Voluntary simplicity will rule in the Transcendent State; Walden is destined to become a paradise covered in lush new forests. But even believers find temptations in the black markets; non-believers are willing to defend their ideals with fire. Walden's only hope may lie with a third option: a very unlikely alien intervention. InBurn, James Patrick Kelly (Think Like a Dinosaur) delivers an innovative, entertaining, and morally-complex vision of the perils of idealism.

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