-- [ From: David Christenson * EMC.Ver #2.5.3 ] --
> On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, silk wrote:
I was wondering if any of
> > you had any suggestions for a moderately feminist or at least
humanist,
> > recent (last decade or so) SF novel that deals with hard technology
and is
> > *not* cyber-anything.
> >
> Nicola Griffith SLOW RIVER. Tells you more about wastewater treatment
> than you ever wanted to know.
>
> Patricia (Pat) Mathews
I second this nomination. It was really refreshing to encounter an SF
novel with a hard science context that wasn't space travel or
computerana. And speaking as a former city-hall reporter who covered a
multi-million-dollar sewage treatment project from inception to
construction, and already learned more than I ever wanted to know about
this stuff, I was impressed with Griffith's projection of future waste
treatment technology. It's a sort of "Nerves," a la Del Rey, for a world
where pollution is as much a threat as radiation.
(However, at least one reader I know was distressed by the shadows of
child abuse and the abusive (prostituted) sex in the novel, and the way
these issues were dealt with but not quite resolved.)
-- David Christenson - ldqt79a@prodigy.com "Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it." - A.A. Milne
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