And two more books...
Aug. 3rd, 2006 09:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dagibbsThis will probably be the last books for a little bit, as I've got 4 issues of The Economist to catch up on, now that I'm home.
Book 39: Conqueror's Legacy by Timothy Zahn. The conclusion of the trilogy, and it properly concludes pulling the various lines together, along with some dramatic space battles and all.
Book 40: Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress. In reading this, I felt like I'd read parts of it before -- and likely I had, since a portion of it had been published as a shorter work. I also, even in the portions that were new, found it reminded me a lot of the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson, in that it was covering societal and social changes around technology advanced by those whose lifes have become long. This book, though, avoids the overwhelming scope of time tried for in the Mars trilogy, and I feel is better for it. Definitely a good book, well done speculation of evolution of societal trends around what successfully genetically engineering our children might do to us.
Book 39: Conqueror's Legacy by Timothy Zahn. The conclusion of the trilogy, and it properly concludes pulling the various lines together, along with some dramatic space battles and all.
Book 40: Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress. In reading this, I felt like I'd read parts of it before -- and likely I had, since a portion of it had been published as a shorter work. I also, even in the portions that were new, found it reminded me a lot of the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson, in that it was covering societal and social changes around technology advanced by those whose lifes have become long. This book, though, avoids the overwhelming scope of time tried for in the Mars trilogy, and I feel is better for it. Definitely a good book, well done speculation of evolution of societal trends around what successfully genetically engineering our children might do to us.
