Widening the angle

[firstlight]

Dear flist,

I'd really like some book recs. Anything you think might grab me. I've been reading a lot of sci-fi lately, so I'd be particularly interested in... you know... other things, but of course I love sci-fi so if there's something I absolutely have to read in that area then that's good too.

Pretty please?

Love,

Liz


(Today = tidying-up-fic day. Oh the pain.)

Comments

[annotated_em]

Since you're up for anything, uh, I can give you theory recs! Michel Foucault's always fun -- History of Sexuality, vol. 1. (Just remember he goes in circles: I'm telling you what I think, spinning this out over several pages. Now I'm telling you that everything I just said is actually wrong, and here's why. Now I'm telling you about the same thing again, but in a different register, from a different perspective.)

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

*makes notes on all this* Thanks! :D I do read really random stuff sometimes, so this one might well come in useful... :)

[annotated_em]

You might also like Donna Haraway. Everyone rec's her Cyborg Manifesto, which is good, but her other stuff is pretty neat, too. She's a very science fictional theorist.

Both she and Foucault also really reward second and third readings.