It would be good the TLHOD. I've always thought the the book itself is one of her best, although the I've never liked then title.
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:26 AM, 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. > > > > > > -- > http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ > http://alunfoto.blogspot.com > > -- > 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. > -- Steve Desjardins -- 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.
