On 21/03/2011, AlunFoto <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/3/21 mike wilson <[email protected]>: >> Coincidentally, I'm rereading "Mining the Oort" by Frederic Pohl, a space >> opera about harvesting comets to terraform Mars. With a helping of social >> manipulation thrown in for good measure. > > I'll add that to my reading list too. > Tangentially, there are other space operas that may apply too. > "Pushing Ice" by Alistair Reynolds and "Gardens of the Sun" by Paul J. > McAuly for starters. The latter is especially fascinating to > biologists. :-) > > What made me think about "Left hand of darkness" is the way LeGuin > describes the aridness of a frozen wilderness. It sort of resonnates > with the way Herbert describes the desert aridness of Arrakis, IMO.
It's not his best but passes the time reasonably well. Just the first one I pulled off the shelf when I needed to oversee Katy in the bath. >From which you can deduce I don't mind too much if it becomes somewhat dampened.... Never thought of comparing LeGuin and Herbert. It's so long since I read those (30years maybe....) that a revisit is in order. Once I've dropped an essay or two. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
