Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.13 $; site iuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!marek From: marek@iuvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: Technology, Literature, Scientists, Message-ID: <3000007@iuvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 23:36:00 EDT Article-I.D.: iuvax.3000007 Posted: Thu Jun 27 23:36:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Jun-85 03:35:30 EDT References: <1103@uwmacc.UUCP> Lines: 20 Nf-ID: #R:uwmacc:-110300:iuvax:3000007:000:967 Nf-From: iuvax!marek Jun 27 22:36:00 1985 Excellent treatments of technology as such, with an admittedly Occidental bias: ============================================================================== "The Cyberiad", "Mortal Engines", "The Invincible", "A Perfect Vaccum", "Summa Technologiae" (learn Polish, German, or help translate the thing!), "Dialogi" (ditto!), "Return from the Stars", "Tales of Pirx the Pilot", "Eden" -- all by Stanislaw Lem, the Next Polish Nobelist in Literature... "The Word for the World is 'Forest'" Ursula K. LeGuin "The Republic" Plato "Persistence of Vision" John Varley "Doorways in the Sand" Roger Zelazny "Avatar" Poul Anderson "Metaphors We Live By" George Lakoff and Mark Johnson "The Mind's I" Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennet, editors "The Tao Is Silent" Raymond Smullyan "White Smoke Bellew and Other Tales" Jack London ...that ought to fill up a semester even at Wisconsin (or Indiana)! -- Marek Lugowski marek@indiana.csnet