Kat: Since you heard from me last, I’ve read The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson, The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett, The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester, The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke, and (this was my favorite) Gateway by Frederik Pohl.
Marion: I finished Becky Chambers’s A Psalm for the Wild-Built.
July 3rd, 2022. Tim Scheidler | Status Update | 4 comments |
The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts by Sylvia Ferrara, translated by Todd Portnowitz
Sylvia Ferrara is an Italian scholar/researcher/professor who has devoted much of her life, both in solo work and (more importantly and effectively to her) in collaboration, to learning how writing developed/develops and to deciphering a number of scripts that have stubbornly resisted translation. In The Greatest Invention she offers the fruits of that research in often fascinating, sometimes dizzying, sometimes frustrating, always exuberant fashion.
The dizzying part comes partly from the way Ferrara flies all over the place in space and time,
July 1st, 2022. Bill Capossere´s rating: 4 | Non-fiction | SFF Reviews | no comments |
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