Academia as a vocation. Thoughts on teaching, scholarship, and the other things that the privilege of being an academic affords the ability to think about. I also use this blog when I teach as a central repository of stuff related to various courses, so you'll find some of that if you browse here too.
21.5.12
S/S/F Summer 2012: Look to Windward
Here is a place for people to post their questions for the class discussion of Look to Windward as comments.
Haven't finished the book as of yet, but I find it interesting that, at least as far as I've gotten, the only protagonists are not human. Does this make a difference? Could the same story be written with a human protagonist. Or, is it possible to write from the perspective of a true alien, a member of a different species? Are these protagonists people? Are they human?
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Haven't finished the book as of yet, but I find it interesting that, at least as far as I've gotten, the only protagonists are not human. Does this make a difference? Could the same story be written with a human protagonist. Or, is it possible to write from the perspective of a true alien, a member of a different species? Are these protagonists people? Are they human?
Why does Banks create the perfect utopia and then choose to write about the dark side?
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