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Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game - 7

some more votes J. R. R. Tolkien - The Two Towers - 8 J. R. R Tolkien - The Return of the King - 8 J. R. R. Tolkien - The Silmarillion - 8 J. R. R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings (Series) - 8 J. R. R. Tolkien - The Hobbit - 8 J. R. R. Tolkien - The Fellowship of the Ring - 8 Douglas...

Brian Aldiss - Greybeard - 8 Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake - 10 Kirsten Bakis - The Lives of the Monsterdogs - 2 James Blish - Midsummer Century - 7 Pierre Boulle - Monkey Planet - 7 Karin Boye - Kallocain - 9 Ernst Callenbach - Ecotopia - 7 Arthur C. Clarke -...

Greybeard - Aldiss, Brian Oryx and Crake - Atwood, Margaret The Lives of the Monsterdogs - Bakis, Kirsten Midsummer Century - Blish, James Monkey Planet - Boulle, Pierre Childhood´s End - Clarke, Arthur C. Seven Years in Tibet - Harrer...

I edmit to having read a few Harlequin novels in a popular litterature class. It was obligatory. Why I don´t read them is because I think they portray Barbie and Ken, plastic types that are an insult to both actual men and actual women. I´d rather read about realistic "ordinary" people in...

Hi Harry! Inspired by your signature, I recommend you to read Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood and to watch the film Twelve Monkeys. And why not the utopian classic Ecotopia by Ernst Callenbach. I am about to read the book behind the movie Planet of the Apes, that is Monkey Planet by...

As I recollect, the mice predated Earth, they were actually the ones who comissioned Earth to solve the question of what the meaning of the answer of the meaning of life is (the answer of course beeing "42") They also made experiments on scientists by running in different ways in labyriths and...

I study science of litterature. But today I was offered a job in a bookstore in our nations capital Stockholm, at first for summer, but if they are happy with me it could be for a longer time. I´m so happy! I even have a place to stay! And then my nephew is moving to the USA this fall and I was...

Interesting point. In reality (outside the literary world) we now have animals, mostly apes, that can speak sign language. Those individuals are not eaten, but other from their species are used for animal testing, horrible things like for developing medication for AIDS. And in other places in...

I concider the homo sapien sapien to be just another animal species, though weird. :p

Yes, I have concidered the Guide. The mice and the dolphins, they were of extraterrestial origin, no? This complicates things. I try to restrict my subject area to animals of earthly origin, other than humans. (I concider the homo sapien sapien to be just another animal species, though weird.) :p

Hi, it´s me again. Moving on from Fantasy and dragons, now I´m researching how earthly animals are represented in Sci-Fi. I´m looking for novels that somehow discuss what place, and which rights animals have in the world, future or present-as long it´s sci-fi. These are some suggestions I´ve...

;) Flattering will get you far, besides I´m so tired of working on my essay for the moment so I´d rather discuss it. :p Ok, say that I am a daoist after all. Have been for 15 years or so. A western daoist. In the spring of 1999 I made a pilgrimage to Baiyin Guan in Bejing. Why are you in...

Sci-fi : Kriget om källan. It was about villages making war on each other over a well because one of the villages sunk into the ground which was contaminated by poisonous waste and all of the water, too. Fantasy: Min allrakäraste syster by Astrid Lindgren. About a girl who wants a puppy dog...

Ah, taoism is supposed to be a Chinese philosophy/religion. Or so I use to belive. But then I read JJ Clarke´s "The Tao of the West-Western transformation of Taoist thought" and learned that it´s not, exactly. So the philosofic content of Le Guins books are kinda Taoistic=Chinese...but really in...

Yobmod - That´s so funny! I love it. :D

I see. Is it like with the fish - they don´t notice the water they live in. And you are Chinese, so you don´t notice the "Chineseness" of Earthsea? But you like it, right? :)

First of all, Le Guin herself. She claims to have been a taoist since childhood. She has written a new interpretion of Tao Te Ching, the book which is the core document of taoism everywhere(?) "The Telling" Le Guin claims is really about how taoism was persecuted in China during the cultural...

...is the title of the essay in litterature I´m working on now and until the 10´th of January next year. That´s why I asked about dragons in literature before. Thank You for all the help on that one, by the way. :) Now I wonder if you ever in reading Le Guin noticed taoism? As a...

Okay, I was right there with you until you came down on Kay! Just the other day I was discussing with a friend how much we loved Kay in our teens and how we will try to find time to read the books over again.