{"id":1311,"date":"2003-07-19T20:51:09","date_gmt":"2003-07-20T03:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/07\/19\/1311.html"},"modified":"2003-07-19T20:51:09","modified_gmt":"2003-07-20T03:51:09","slug":"generations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/07\/19\/generations\/","title":{"rendered":"Generations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just took time out from reading subs to finish Le&nbsp;Guin's \"Paradises Lost,\" the novella that rounds out the collection <cite>The Birthday of the World and Other Stories.<\/cite>  Despite a little too much religion-bashing, it's as gorgeous as one might expect.  I would never have expected that there was anything interesting left to say about generation starships, after the explorations that've been done of the well-worn trope (which I nonetheless quite like) of the people on the ship not knowing they're on a ship; but then, it never occurred to me that I hadn't seen a story about the middle generations of the people on a generation ship who <em>do<\/em> know they're on one.  Many insights and new ways of looking at things; rich and complex.  Really good stuff.<\/p>\n<p>In her Introduction, Le&nbsp;Guin mentions Molly Gloss's <cite>The Dazzle of Day,<\/cite> which I've heard lots of good things about but haven't read, and Harry Martinson's <cite>Aniara,<\/cite> which I'd never heard of.  (The ISFDB says it's a \"collection of 102 poems about the runaway spaceship <cite>Aniara.<\/cite>\")  Reading the books on my to-read stack isn't supposed to generate more books to be read!<\/p>\n<p>I still have one story to go in this collection, \"Old Music and the Slave Women\"; I've held off on it because it apparently goes with the stories in <cite>Four Ways to Forgiveness,<\/cite> and I've only read one of those four stories because I've never seen a copy of that book and it's out of print.  Oh, hey, Powells has it!  Cool.  Okay, time to order more books, sigh.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just took time out from reading subs to finish Le&nbsp;Guin&#8217;s &#8220;Paradises Lost,&#8221; the novella that rounds out the collection The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}