Social Engineering Literature
The Santaroga Barrier : Economic Genre Fiction (Frank Herbert) ---»
...The flurry (or slurry) of new, so-called Economic Genre Fiction books must… imperative here, must pay creed to its currently ignored origins. And, for many, Economic Genre fiction starts with the Santaroga Barrier by Frank Herbert. Sure sure sure.. Dune, we know. The Green Brain… excellent! but, off topic. No, in the Santaroga Barrier, Frank [...]
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub (Stanislaw Lem) ---»
...Stanislaw Lems Memoirs found in a Bathtub has got to be the best polish scifi of the middle century. Its like The Castle by Kafka but with technology, not crummy old villages. And its got confused people wandering around, trying to do stuff to the best of there ability, and failing miserably. But hey, thats [...]
The Mother and Other Unsavory Plays: Including The Shoemakers and They (Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz) ---»
...Daniel Gerould is a God. Who else is a proponent of Witkiewicz, one of the greatest modern artists, to Western-Western culture? None. Who else provides insight and commentary, erudite and fascination, or examines the small scraps of leavenings upon which his history has been writ small? None, on this side of the Atlantic. (the side [...]
