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Tim Hutton

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Joined 2 years, 4 months ago

Sci Fi. Currently reading my way through Ursula K. Le Guin.

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Greg Egan: Scale (EBook, 2022)

When electronics importer Cara Leon goes missing, private investigator Sam Mujrif is hired by her …

"The thing I love about Egan’s work is that neither the scientific ideas nor the narrative are there to carry the other. The idea that humans could exist at seven different scales isn’t present to make a detective story more complicated, nor does the detective story (which turns into a serious political situation) exist simply to enable wild, what-if fantasies. Instead, they work together to make this a genuinely thought-provoking story on both a political and a scientific level."

Ursula K. Le Guin: The  Dispossessed (Hardcover, 1991, Harper Paperbacks)

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, …

A theoretical physicist working completely alone?

I found this hard work, I'm not sure why. The self-sacrifice rings true but the isolated research doesn't. My least favourite of the Hainish cycle so far.