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George Orwell: balíček 5 elektronických knih (PDF+ePub)     za 183  110 Kč (-40%)

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28.3.: Bohumil HrabalBohumil Hrabal
[28.3.1914-3.2.1997]
- 110. výročí narození
28.3.: Jan Amos KomenskýJan Amos Komenský
[28.3.1592-15.11.1670]
- 432. výročí narození
28.3.: Zdeněk SvěrákZdeněk Svěrák
[28.3.1936]
slaví 88. narozeniny
29.3.: Jo NesbøJo Nesbø
[29.3.1960]
slaví 64. narozeniny
29.3.: Jiří WolkerJiří Wolker
[29.3.1900-3.1.1924]
- 124. výročí narození
30.3.: Paul VerlainePaul Verlaine
[30.3.1844-8.1.1896]
- 180. výročí narození
30.3.: Karl MayKarl Friedrich May
[25.2.1842-30.3.1912]
- 112. výročí úmrtí
31.3.: Michal VieweghMichal Viewegh
[31.3.1962]
slaví 62. narozeniny
31.3.: Ota PavelOta Pavel
[2.7.1930-31.3.1973]
- 51. výročí úmrtí
1.4.: Nikolaj GogolNikolaj Vasiljevič Gogol (Николай Васильевич Гоголь)
[1.4.1809-4.3.1852]
- 215. výročí narození
1.4.: Milan KunderaMilan Kundera
[1.4.1929]
slaví 95. narozeniny
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[1.4.1431(19.4.1432?)-1463(1467?)]
- 593. výročí narození
1.4.: Edgar WallaceEdgar Horatio Edgar Wallace
[1.4.1875-10.2.1932]
- 149. výročí narození
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[2.4.1805-4.8.1875]
- 219. výročí narození
2.4.: Émile ZolaÉmile Zola
[2.4.1840-29.9.1902]
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[4.4.1911-6.11.1976]
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[4.4.1915-28.11.1970]
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[5.4.1835-8.10.1874]
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[3.6.1926-5.4.1997]
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[2.1.1920-6.4.1992]
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[26.5.1900-6.4.1958]
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Náhodná ukázka:

JUPITER V

Moving more and more slowly as she approached the far point of her ellipse, Discovery soared past the orbits of Ganymede and Callisto-but they were out of range on the other side of Jupiter. The ship began to fall back, cutting again across their orbits, as well as those of Europa and Io. She was about to make her first approach to the closest and in some ways oddest of all the satellites, tiny Jupiter V.

Only seventy thousand miles above the turbulent Jovian cloudscape, and completing each orbit in less than twelve hours, Jupiter V is the nearest thing to a natural synchronous satellite in the whole Solar System. For as Jupiter revolves in about ten hours, V stands almost still in its sky, drifting very slowly indeed from east to west.

It was not easy to observe Jupiter V. The tiny moonlet, only a hundred miles in diameter, was so close to Jupiter that it spent much of its time eclipsed in the planet's enormous cone of shadow. And even when it was in the sunlight, it moved so rapidly that it was hard to find and to keep in the field of view.

The fly-by on the morning of that second Joveday was not very favorable, the satellite was twenty thousand miles away, and visible only for about ten minutes. There was time for nothing more than a quick look through the telescopes, while the cameras snapped a few hundred shots of the rapidly vanishing little world.

The detailed examination of the photos would take several hours; after a while the endless repetition of impact craters, fractured rocks, and occasional patches of frozen gas produced something close to boredom. But no one could tear himself away from the screen; and at last, after more than half the stored images had been scanned, patience was rewarded.

The crucial sequence had been taken with a telephoto lens, just as Jupiter V was emerging from shadow. At one moment there was a black screen; then, magically, a thin crescent suddenly materialized, as the little moon came out of eclipse.

Kimball was the first to spot the curious oval patch near the terminator. He froze the picture, and zoomed in for full magnification. As he did so, there were simultaneous gasps from all his colleagues.

Part of the side facing Jupiter had been sheared off flat, as if by a cosmic bulldozer, leaving a perfectly circular plateau several miles across. At its center was a clear-cut, sharply defined rectangle, about five times as long as it was wide, and pitch-black. At first glance it seemed to be a solid object; then they realized that they were staring into shadow; this was an enormous hole or slot, wide enough to engulf Discovery, and extending deep into the heart of Jupiter V. It was at least a quarter of a mile in length, and perhaps a hundred yards wide.

Time and geology could play some odd tricks with a world; but this was not one of them.

It was an unusually quiet and subdued group that gathered in the artificial gravity of the carousel for the luxury of coffee that could actually be drunk from cups, not squirted from plastic bulbs.

(...)

 

(Arthur C. Clarke, The Lost Worlds of 2001)

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