"Richard Morgan - Thirteen" - читать интересную книгу автора (Morgan Richard)

The concept of artificial chromosome platforms is also borrowed, in this case from Gregory Stock's
fascinating and slightly scary book Redesigning Humans, which, along with Nature Via Nurture and
Steven Pinker's brilliant The Blank Slate and How the Mind Works, served as the bulk inspiration for
most of the future genetic science I've dreamed up here. Once again, any mangling or misuse of the
material I found in these outstanding works must be laid solely at my door.

Yaroshanko intuitive function, though my own invention, owes a large debt of inspiration to very real
research done on social networks, as described in Mark Buchanan's book Small World. And I'm
personally indebted to Hannu Rajaniemi at the University of Edinburgh for taking the time to (try to)
explain quantum game theory and its potential applications to me, thus giving me the basis for the New
Math and its subtle but far-reaching social impact. Thanks also must go to Simon Spanton, star editor,
for patiently helping me wrangle the technical logistics of Mars-Earth cryocapping.

In the political sphere, I was heavily influenced by two very perceptive and rather depressing books
about the United States, The Right Nation by John Micklethwait and Adrian Woolridge and What's the
Matter with America by Thomas Frank, as well as the brilliant and slightly less depressing Stiffed by
Susan Faludi. While these books all fed into the concept of the Secession and the gender themes arising
in Thirteen, the Confederated Republic itself (aka Jesusland) was inspired by the now famous Jesusland
map meme, created (according to Wikipedia) by one G. Webb on the message board yakyak.org. Way
to go, G.! Special personal thanks must also go to Alan Beatts of Borderlands books in San Francisco
for listening to my meanderings over whiskey and shwarma, and lending me a little informed American
opinion with which to polish up what I had.

For insights into a possible future (and widely misunderstood past) Islam, I'm also indebted to Tariq Ali
for The Clash of Fundamentalisms, Karen Armstrong for Islam: A Short History, and the very
courageous Irshad Manji for The Trouble with Islam Today. Here also, I have done my fair share of
mangling, and the outcomes in Thirteen do not necessarily bear any relation to anything these authors
might endorse.

And finally, I owe a massive debt of gratitude to all those who waited with such immense patience, and
still told me to take all the time I needed:

Simon Spanton-again!-and Jo Fletcher at Gollancz, Chris Schluep and Betsy Mitchell at Del Rey, my
agent Carolyn Whitaker, and last but not least all those well-wishers who e-mailed me during 2006 with
messages of condolence, reassurance, and support. This book would not exist without you.

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This book is dedicated to the memory of my mother

MARGARET ANN MORGAN

who taught me to hate bigotry, cruelty, and injustice with an unrelenting rage, and to despise the
hypocrisy that looks away or makes comfortable excuses when those same vices crop up closer to
home than we'd like.

I miss you.

It seems feasible that over the coming century human nature will be scientifically remodelled. If so, it will