Comments on: The heresy within http://www.bibliographing.com/2009/05/07/heresy/ or, writing about books Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:24:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: nicole http://www.bibliographing.com/2009/05/07/heresy/comment-page-1/#comment-1166 nicole Sun, 10 May 2009 19:12:30 +0000 http://www.bibliographing.com/?p=1525#comment-1166 Of course, the papyralysis would hardly slow things down these days, with everything on little metal circuits instead of cellulose. Now we are mediated through 0's and 1's. I haven't read Beggars in Spain--but then I haven't read any Ursula K. Le Guin either. In fact I haven't read much science fiction at all, though I periodically decide that I should acquire some background in that area. I find it particularly hard to know where to start, though. Thanks for the suggestion. Of course, the papyralysis would hardly slow things down these days, with everything on little metal circuits instead of cellulose. Now we are mediated through 0′s and 1′s.

I haven’t read Beggars in Spain–but then I haven’t read any Ursula K. Le Guin either. In fact I haven’t read much science fiction at all, though I periodically decide that I should acquire some background in that area. I find it particularly hard to know where to start, though. Thanks for the suggestion.

]]> By: nate http://www.bibliographing.com/2009/05/07/heresy/comment-page-1/#comment-1146 nate Thu, 07 May 2009 22:54:41 +0000 http://www.bibliographing.com/?p=1525#comment-1146 "mediation through paper" --Once in a pique of drunken "insight" about the absurdity of paper identification I threw all my id's into the air and let them fall in a pile of bushes. They were all gone days later when I returned to find my library card. Nice essay, I will have to check into this book. I was wondering the other day if you have read Beggars in Spain, a science fiction novel by Nancy Kress. "Nancy Kress has explained that the book, and the trilogy generally, grapples with the conflicting principles of Ayn Rand on one hand and Ursula K. Le Guin's picture of communist-like community on the other." ---http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beggars_in_Spain “mediation through paper” –Once in a pique of drunken “insight” about the absurdity of paper identification I threw all my id’s into the air and let them fall in a pile of bushes. They were all gone days later when I returned to find my library card.

Nice essay, I will have to check into this book. I was wondering the other day if you have read Beggars in Spain, a science fiction novel by Nancy Kress.

“Nancy Kress has explained that the book, and the trilogy generally, grapples with the conflicting principles of Ayn Rand on one hand and Ursula K. Le Guin’s picture of communist-like community on the other.”
—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beggars_in_Spain

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