Recent reading + Yuletide
Nov. 19th, 2019 05:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaI've spent a couple of days reviewing canon with no ideas at all of what to write, and finally there was a bit of canon that sparked something. Whew. And it's nothing that needs to be particularly long, either, which is also a relief.
Solution Three by Naomi Mitchison (1975)
This SF book is very obviously written in 1975 and not today. It's not one of my favorite Mitchison books, but I guess it did grow on me a bit while reading. It has clones, but not for the reason that most SF today has clones (to use as disposable workers, or to use as spare bodies for individuals), but because those particular individuals were regarded as the best humans ever and we all would like the population to consist of the best humans, yes? I could see where that was going as soon as the parallell plot thread about diseases on crop monocultures came up. There's also population control, a benevolent world government and socially mandated homosexuality, with heterosexuality frowned on. I enjoyed Memoirs of a Spacewoman a lot more.
Playing Against the House: The Dramatic World of an Undercover Union Organizer by James D. Walsh (2016)
A exciting page turner, written by a journalist who went undercover as a salt in a casino. I'm struck by the differences between Swedish and American labor law. Huh.
Solution Three by Naomi Mitchison (1975)
This SF book is very obviously written in 1975 and not today. It's not one of my favorite Mitchison books, but I guess it did grow on me a bit while reading. It has clones, but not for the reason that most SF today has clones (to use as disposable workers, or to use as spare bodies for individuals), but because those particular individuals were regarded as the best humans ever and we all would like the population to consist of the best humans, yes? I could see where that was going as soon as the parallell plot thread about diseases on crop monocultures came up. There's also population control, a benevolent world government and socially mandated homosexuality, with heterosexuality frowned on. I enjoyed Memoirs of a Spacewoman a lot more.
Playing Against the House: The Dramatic World of an Undercover Union Organizer by James D. Walsh (2016)
A exciting page turner, written by a journalist who went undercover as a salt in a casino. I'm struck by the differences between Swedish and American labor law. Huh.
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Date: 2019-11-20 01:29 am (UTC)Yay! *\o/*
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Date: 2019-11-20 06:55 pm (UTC)