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Kalle Kniivilä

kallekn@kirja.casa

Joined 2 years, 9 months ago

Journalist på Sydsvenskan. Finns mest på Mastodon: mastodonsweden.se/@kallekn Ruotsinsuomalainen toimittaja. Lueskelen kaikenlaista monella kielellä, ja kirjoitankin. www.kniivila.net

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Isaac Asimov: The Gods Themselves (2000)

In the twenty-second century Earth obtains limitless, free energy from a source science little understands: …

Many good ideas but

I read this book in the 1970s when it was published in Finnish, and I was maybe 13 years old. Now somebody mentioned it on Mastodon and I decided to read it again, in English.

It contains many good ideas, a lot of which apply well to world politics today. Like the idea that problems can be easily solved by pretending they don't exist. But the depiction of women is definitely not from this century. Even female (?) aliens are less intelligent, but have more empathy than the less female aliens. The naked women on the Moon with I still remember from the 1970s.

reviewed Ammonite by Nicola Griffith

Nicola Griffith: Ammonite (EBook, 2002, Del Rey)

Change or die: the only options available on the Durallium Company-owned planet GP. The planet's …

Dystopia more credible than utopia

For some reason is seems easier to come up with a credible dystopia than a credible utopia. The Company which seems to be running a lot of planets in this universe is all too similar to a lot of companies in the existing world, and the first half of the book would easily get four stars from me. But the people of Jeep are just too much fantasy for me to digest. Mysticism thinly veiled as "science". Could have bought the societal part, but genetic memory and healing with psychic fields or whatever was just too much. Oh well, probably I'm just too boring for this book.