Heh. Yeah the book is perhaps my favorite Ursula K. Leguin novel. Though
"The Left Hand Of Darkness" and "The Disposessed" are crucial as well.
The newer film version (or TV show, whatever) I thought was quite nice, though
it got critically slagged. I've not seen the PBS original.
While I'm completely off topic I might as well give my top Science Fiction
author list, in no particular order:
Jonathan Lethem -- start with "Gun, With Occasional Music"
James Morrow -- "Towing Jehova"
Melissa Scott -- Anything by her but "Dreaming Metal" is cool
David Foster Wallace -- "The Infinite Jest" -- an alien chest-burster of
a novel, without a doubt.
Linda Nagata -- pretty far out there. As far as hard sci-fi goes, she's
written some doozies.
Greg Egan -- wicked stuff, especially "Schild's Ladder"
Tim Powers -- Houdini, Ghosts, People Addicted to Smoking Ghosts...
and it gets weirder than that...
Philip K Dick -- naturally ...
Joan Sloncewski -- "A Door Into Ocean" Great characters ... weird science
Sherri Tepper -- a Big Thinker, a Good Writer, with loads of kickass novels.
I won't even mention the obvious current darlings like William Gibson,
Bruce Sterling, Neil Stephenson etc, because they're good, but you already
know.
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, magicteeth wrote:
quoted 15 lines --- John Reading <john.reading@us.didata.com> wrote:
> --- John Reading <john.reading@us.didata.com> wrote:
> > http://www.thirteen.org/lathe/
> >
> > sweet. It's on pbs in June. Must fire up the Tivo.
> > Thanks for the tip.
>
>
> i've only seen the recently made version [an A&E
> production] which can be rented in video stores...
> i will have to check out the original as well.
> there's also a book upon which all this is based, and
> from what i've read it's supposed to be better than
> the film. the story is very philip k. dick-ish.
>
>
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