Good Old Ike
Jul. 19th, 2019 11:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hazmatBorrowed The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov from the library on a whim and read it.
It's very.... 60s/70s era hard sci-fi. Asimov was a progressive but always seemed to find women kind of inscrutable. But some of the themes in this book are, sadly, still pretty much a thing even in 2019, like stubbornness and cults of personality and sheer "this is the way i want the world to work" denial getting in the way of science, even at the possible cost of mass destruction.
It could be adapted into a series pretty well, I think, mostly with cosmetic changes (like, yes, turn some of the male characters female and maybe not try to put male/female pronouns on the obviously non-gender-binary aliens and maybe not lean quite so heavily into the idea that a progressive society is OF COURSE a nudist one (ok i still kind of lol at that)).
Completed book count for 2019: 15
It's very.... 60s/70s era hard sci-fi. Asimov was a progressive but always seemed to find women kind of inscrutable. But some of the themes in this book are, sadly, still pretty much a thing even in 2019, like stubbornness and cults of personality and sheer "this is the way i want the world to work" denial getting in the way of science, even at the possible cost of mass destruction.
It could be adapted into a series pretty well, I think, mostly with cosmetic changes (like, yes, turn some of the male characters female and maybe not try to put male/female pronouns on the obviously non-gender-binary aliens and maybe not lean quite so heavily into the idea that a progressive society is OF COURSE a nudist one (ok i still kind of lol at that)).
Completed book count for 2019: 15