Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 17:06:09 +0200 (EET)
From: J Laari <jlaari-AT-cc.jyu.fi>
Subject: Re: Scary novels/future



On Mon, 4 Mar 1996, Bryan A. Alexander wrote:

> Good distinction.  Do you know Adorno's fine essay on BRAVE NEW WORLD?  
> It's in PRISMS.  

Thanks. Haven't read Prisms, guess I have to run to library? 

> I'd be interested to know what other political sf novels you're thinking 
> about.  Have you read the anarchist classics, THE DISPOSSESSED (LeGuin) 
> or DHALGREN (Delany)? or any early Soviet sf, like Bogdanov's short novels?

Delany - I don't know. LeGuin I've loved. The Dispossessed was great. I 
had to read it twice. (Hey, there was on list some discussion on it last 
summer, Lisa had read it?) However, "Left Hand of Darkness" made stronger 
impression, perhaps because it was first one by LeGuin I ever read. What 
comes to Soviets, I've had some older books, but can't remember anymore 
names nor authors. Two volumes by Zamyatin are all I know. 

> The latter is part of Adorno's argument. And Orwell was indeed a serious 
> antifascist, comments on this list and elsewhere to the contrary.

Yes, surely he was, I don't deny it. Jerry reminded us of "Catalonia". 
That was really bitter one to read. Sort of 'I got sand into my eyes'... 
That is, I don't have anything against Orwell. 

Yours, Jukka L


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