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Second Chance Book Poll - August/September 2015
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Perhaps more avid readers of science fiction would disagree with me, but I felt, reading this in 2015, the book was showing its age. i.e. in the treatment of women and savages/natives and travel by personal spaceship.
However, there’s a basic premise of humans losing to forces beyond their control remain true. Technology is becoming increasingly complex and encroaching. Computers take over more and more of our daily lives, sometimes in pleasurable ways and sometimes not. For example, I love my l ...more
However, there’s a basic premise of humans losing to forces beyond their control remain true. Technology is becoming increasingly complex and encroaching. Computers take over more and more of our daily lives, sometimes in pleasurable ways and sometimes not. For example, I love my l ...more
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#56 in my chronological read of McCrums 100 greatest.
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marked it as to-read
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it was amazing
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