My summer reading list (not that I get to read both every year):
The Songs of Distant Earth, by Arthur C. Clarke
The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
The first is about what we never prepared for, but could try to thrive through. (Mike Oldfield made a cool concept album about this. One of the songs is called “Only time will tell”)
The second is a murder mystery set in a medieval monastery. But wait! Is it actually a multilayered examination of our notions about information? Oh hell yeah.
Love that Oldfield album. Had it for decades, and was thrilled to find out it was based on a book I’d read quite a long time before discovering the album.
My summer reading list (not that I get to read both every year):
The first is about what we never prepared for, but could try to thrive through. (Mike Oldfield made a cool concept album about this. One of the songs is called “Only time will tell”)
The second is a murder mystery set in a medieval monastery. But wait! Is it actually a multilayered examination of our notions about information? Oh hell yeah.
Umberto Eco has beautiful prose, I wish I knew enough Italian to read it in the original text
Love that Oldfield album. Had it for decades, and was thrilled to find out it was based on a book I’d read quite a long time before discovering the album.
never heard of it, but cool video someone who liked the song also said was good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU2q36b2V-k