Comments on: My Past Through Tomorrow–Introduction

By: What now? : Urbanagora

What now? : Urbanagora — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:15:14 +0000

[...] the forty years following 2007. If you new readers would like to review them now, they start with this one and continue through #6 published on September 12, 2007. You might also refer to my short piece, [...]

By: Karen Pierce

Karen Pierce — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:22:00 +0000

I didn’t think I would like science fiction either until I read Orwell’s “1984″ and Huxley’s “Brave New World”. I thought “Brave New World” was profound, but I’ve since gotten tired of dystopian science fiction. I like books by Stephen Baxter, like “The Timeships”, “Time’s Eye”, and “Manifold Space”. In “Manifold Space”, the intelligent beings in a very extremely distant future were mining black holes for energy and rearranging the universe to prevent “heat death”. That seems like the untimate goal of intelligent life–to never die by leaving the solar system before it burns itself out and eventually to prevent the universe itself from dying.

Currently, though, I’m reading the Harry Potter books, an economics book by David Warsh called “Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations”, and I just ordered a book called “The Copernican Revolution” by Thomas S. Kuhn.

By: Augur

Augur — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:40:00 +0000

I thought it was remarkably creative, particularly in the parts of the book when the author briefly discusses several events that are going on in the background. When you consider the inventions the author imagined, and how close he was on some of the things, like fax machines, cell phones, gps, water beds, answering machines, it's pretty amazing.

I loved Jubal. I thought the sexism that was built in was a little curious, and also that the free love communal aspect was pretty bold for a book that was probably written mostly in the 1950s. The name thing (each name representing certain biblical ideas and the characters role/ personality) was sort of a neat gimick, but not as inspired as the creativity - and the natural connection to the story of Christ.

I loved it. I never figured I would like sci-fi that much, despite growing up loving star trek.

Part of it could be that this is a welcome relief to the random political bios I usually read. A few of those I loved were Kingfish & a Political Education (by harry mcpherson). I'm currently reading Vernon Burton's book "the age of lincoln" as well as a book on Hubert Humphrey.

Thanks for asking. What blows your hair back anyway?

By: Karen Pierce

Karen Pierce — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:28:00 +0000

So am I.

btw, Augur, since I was fairly unimpressed with “Stranger in a Strange Land”, I’m curious what your thoughts are on the book

By: Augur

Augur — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:30:00 +0000

I’m excited.