JAPAN: TELEVISION SUPER HIGH VISION 8K AND THE FUTURIST PREDITIONS OF THE WRITER RAY BRADBURY.
Today, I read in FB that Japan had already invented the Super 8K television. One TV projects on an entire screen the size of a wall.
We have the most advanced 52-inch HD screen and we still think a giant screen.
The problem is that there are not yet movies or series filmed for that kind of big screen, except the movie "2001: a space odyssey", filmed for wide screen. It is planned to officially premiere at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
This reminded me of a story by American science fiction writer Ray Bradbury. I do not remember if it was from the book Fahrenheit 451 or another from the prolific author.
I only remember that in that story two children, girl and boy, ask their parents for a special room. It had to have in the 6 walls projected in all its fullness movies of their pleasure.
Parents please them.One afternoon the boys rent "a video" from the African Savanna and they lock themselves in the room for hours. Alarmed parents knock on the door, open it and see that their little ones have disappeared.
In the room, even with the walls, images of the savanna were projected for everywhere. Alarmed, they start looking for the children. They only heard the roar of a lion.
On the floor: the bloody shirt of one of the boys.
My favorite novel, even the memory of my youth, "Dandelion Wine", is a master piece of fantasy and realism of a boy and his brother. It is a world of pure poetry.
Thanks to Ray for making me dream in my adolescence but I never imagined that his mind, very imaginary and magical, would advance in the future time.
ORLANDO VICENTE ALVAREZ
THE CHAVIAN: FIRST CUBAN WOMAN WHO WRITE FICTION SCIENCE.
In 1991, I was a frequent reader and buyer of the main library in Guantánamo. I found a recently published book.
It was a storybook, the main and most moving, entitled the cover: THE ABBREVIATION OF DINOSAURS. I made a brief reading of the homonymous story and was surprised. It was a mixture of ancient myths, antediluvian animals and the secret meaning that the author wanted to give to the whole book.I bought it and I went to digest it at home.
DAINA CHAVIANO-1957- was the writer, unknown to me, but in which she discovered a new way of working Science Fiction. Then I found out that she had fled to the United States and I lost her trail.
Her book was removed from the library and the provincial library. I could not believe that a new Cuban writer would handle science fiction in a different way than Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Howard Phillips Lovecraft and others wrote.
The Dinosaur Trough resembles the ancient Greek-Roman myth of Cronus. Cronos and his sister-wife Rea (who in Roman mythology is associated with the goddess Ops) fathered six of the 12 gods and goddesses of Olympus. However, Cronos, jealous of his children and distrusting that they did with him what he did with his father, he was eating them as they were born.
In the story is a dinosaur or dinosauria - the mother earth or the supreme goddess of man - who devoured their children as they were born.Mythology transferred to the present or a suggestion to the Castro regime that devoured the devout people in case anyone wanted to replace it when they grew up and noticed their cruelty.I dont know.
The author may have the key to what she wrote the book. But it left an indelible mark on me, a lover of science fiction too.
Here in exile searching and searching I learn that the Chaviano has an extensive work after her departure from Cuba and has received multiple awards for her books in which she continues to use a mixture of ancient myths, mainly Caribbean or Cuban, with a fine lyricism to sometimes, eroticism and the absurd.
I recommend the book that awakened my imagination in Cuba, back in the early 90's.
THE ABBREVIATION OF DINOSAURS.
THANK YOU .DAINA CHAVIANO
.DR. Orlando Vicente Álvarez. Uruguay
read https://www.amazon.com/Memorias-niño-guantanamero-Guantanamero-Spanish/dp/1520725884
