Re: Hurricane Harvey
Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2017 11:54 am
Cody wrote: ↑Sat Sep 16, 2017 11:37 am<nods> A very good read, is that. Oh for something like the spindizzy!Flatfingers wrote: ↑Sat Sep 16, 2017 11:22 amThis was the conceit that James Blish used in his fantastic "Cities in Flight" tetralogy, which I highly recommend.
Amen to that!
But did you read the omnibus edition that had the astonishing afterword by Richard D. Mullen, which included the chart of history in Spenglerian terms plus Blish's future history?
It was that brief essay that sparked my interest in civilizational studies, eventually bringing me to one of the three greatest books I've ever read in a lifetime of library-scouring: Carroll Quigley's The Evolution of Civilizations.
Who says science fiction can't provoke thought about things that matter?