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"The Gods Themselves" is a easy to read but truly mind blowing book. Asimov's characters are a bit wooden but the ideas in the book really got me to look at the
by brown-dragon 11y ago
"The Gods Themselves" is a easy to read but truly mind blowing book. Asimov's characters are a bit wooden but the ideas in the book really got me to look at the world differently.
The line "I have an idea, a simple idea, based on the quite obvious fact that the number two is ridiculous and can't exist." has stayed with me for over a decade now as has the surprising lovemaking of the aliens.
For a hard read that you may enjoy I'd suggest "The Book of the New Sun". I'm re-reading it for the fourth time and it just gets better.
- tzs 11y agoThere's an interesting song based on the moral conflict faced by the three aliens in "The Gods Themselves", by Bob Kanefsky, and sung by Julia Ecklar: [1]. Kanefsky may be familiar to many HN readers for his song "Eternal Flame", about the superiority of Lisp to other languages, also sung by Julia Ecklar [2]. [1] http://www.last.fm/music/Julia+Ecklar/_/Meltdown+(Julia+Ecklar) http://www.last.fm/music/Julia+Ecklar/_/Meltdown+(Julia+Eckl... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-OjTPj7K54 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-OjTPj7K54
- brown-dragon 11y agoHa! That was excellent! :-D :-D