The Fadiman book is awesome. She also has a great book of essays - Ex Libris - about books, reading and her family, who are the sort of people who compulsively proof-read restaurant menus.
On the flimsy pretext of having two train journeys and only one book, I visited my local sf/f bookshop today and found a new Susan Palwick book; Shelter, about an intelligent house offering entrance to a homeless man in a storm, in a near-future US where such things are not done. It looks very good, and I'm looking forward to seeing more of how she examines class; there aren't a lot of sf books about beggars and homeless people.
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Sat, Jun. 23rd, 2007 09:25 am (UTC)On the flimsy pretext of having two train journeys and only one book, I visited my local sf/f bookshop today and found a new Susan Palwick book; Shelter, about an intelligent house offering entrance to a homeless man in a storm, in a near-future US where such things are not done. It looks very good, and I'm looking forward to seeing more of how she examines class; there aren't a lot of sf books about beggars and homeless people.