Udhay wrote:
Ameya Nagarajan wrote:
My goodness this Years of Rice and Salt sounds AMAZING! Immediately
adding to TBR.
Bruce Metcalf did a detailed review of it on silklist many years ago.
Perhaps he can repost it? I don't seem to have it in my archive.
Sadly, I don't either. At least, I probably don't. Much of my email was
caught in a data storm on a bad hard drive and I haven't recovered all
of it yet. Mbox files are slow and boring to retrieve, especially if you
want to reintegrate them into Thunderbird.
My admiration of this book, and Kim Stanley Robinson in general remain.
I used to recommend his Mars trilogy (Red Mars, Blue Mars, Green Mars)
as the most hopeful and credible tale since Star Trek. It's still a good
read, however:
I have just finished reading "A City of Mars" by Kelly and Zach
Weinersmith (he of "Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal"). Well researched
and carefully thought out, it's also funny and informative, with
extensive notes and bibliography. See why they call themselves "space
bastards", and like me, perhaps become one yourself. Turns out there's a
lot more to space colonization than rockets, and much of it involves
lawyers, which can't be good.
Short list this year, partly due to a six-month cruise that compressed
everything else.
Cheers,
/ Bruce /
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