Re: what do students read?

From: farah mendlesohn (fm7@YORK.AC.UK)
Date: Tue Apr 22 1997 - 10:49:36 PDT


On Mon, 21 Apr 1997 22:54:53 -0400 Nalo Hopkinson wrote:

> types.) Kim Stanley Robinson's _Pacific Edge._ I haven't read the
rest
> of the trilogy, and I don't know what the hell I'm waiting for. I find
> his sheer wordcraft enchanting, and for the rest, (pace anyone
whose
> descriptions might be more accurate than mine) it's an
eco-conscious
> novel that paints the universe in a drop of water by detailing the
> personal and political conflicts amongst the members of a small
town
> council in a utopic (California? I learned a different geography than
> American). Sounds dry, but it's juicy. And, I think, humanist--is that
> a word?--in that it speaks to feminism, and looks at ageism and
sizeism

Kim Stanley Robinson's trilogy isn't chronological. The other two are
dystopic alternative universes.

(check bookshel for titles -- sorry).

Farah



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