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Tag Archives: Cultural contact
Downward to the Earth, Robert Silverberg (Signet Books, 1971 {Blackstone Audio, 2011 Narrator: Bronson Pinchot})
Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg may have been innovative in 1971, but comes across as cliché forty years later. It is a self-described homage to Heart of Darkness, yet contains little that is new and its only twist is not only blatantly obvious from get go and undermines the value of Conrad’s tale. For more go to http://www.sophyanempire.wordpress.com Continue reading
Posted in audio book, Classic Sci Fi, Cultural Contact, Identity, Post Colonial, Post Modern, Science Fiction, Space Exploration, Spiritual, Stand Alone Novel, Uncategorized
Tagged Art, Audiobook, Blackstone Audiobooks, Book, book review, books, Bronson Pinchot, Cultural contact, Downward to the Earth, Fiction, Hainish Cycle, Heart of Darkness, identity, Joseph Conrad, Novel Review, Robert Silverberg, Science Fiction, Silverberg, Space exploration, Timothy Leary
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Planet of Exile, Book 4 in the Hainish Cycle, Ursula K. LeGuin (Ace Double, 1966 {Blackstone Audio, Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie and Steven Hove})
Planet of Exile by Ursula K. LeGuin is the stand alone fourth book in her wonderful Hainish Cycle. The flow of language in this novel is wonderful and adds to the story, which is one of her most tense and gripping. I highly recommend this to any reader, even if they may not like Science Fiction as a whole. For a more in depth review see http://www.sophyanempire.wordpress.com Continue reading
Posted in Classic Sci Fi, Cultural Contact, Cycle, Identity, Military Science Fiction, Part of A Series but can be Read without reading previous volumes, Political Drama, Ripping Yarn, Science Fiction, Series, Space Exploration, Stand Alone Novel, Strong Characters, Thoughtful, Uncategorized, Unique or Imaginative World, World
Tagged Alfred L. Kroeber, alien, anthropology, Arts, book review, Cultural contact, Gamma Draconis, hain, Hainish Cycle, Military Science Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction book, Science Fiction book review, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ursula K. LeGuin, Werel
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The Archaeologist's Guide to the Galaxy.. by Thomas Evans 