2011/3/21 mike wilson <m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com>: > 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
