tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post5633669249618477445..comments2024-03-27T23:55:17.673-07:00Comments on Flogging Babel: E-Book Sale! Bones of the Earth! Tomorrow Only!Michael Swanwickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18389836784776252022noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-23757789106959227982022-06-04T06:13:39.411-07:002022-06-04T06:13:39.411-07:00I honestly can't say which of these posts elat...I honestly can't say which of these posts elates me more. I thank you both for them. You've made my day.Michael Swanwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01708413411146291236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-22355034452256972962022-06-03T15:34:44.295-07:002022-06-03T15:34:44.295-07:00Let's try this again:
You got something right...Let's try this again:<br /><br />You got something right in this book that I would have expected only a natural scientist to get right - we see it in the scene where the party marooned in the Cretaceous finally arrived back at the present. All of the rescued were exhausted, under-nourished, bug-bitten, sunburnt, filthy, and <i>unable to top talking about what they'd seen and learned</i>, to anyone who'd listen. You caught the exhilaration of fieldwork, and I've encountered few not involved in that sort of work who understand it. Kim Stanley Robinson, of course, and Gene Wolfe got it right in The Fifth Head of Cerberus when his scientist viewpoint character admits that becoming an academic really just provides a respectable and reasonable excuse for getting out in the field.<br />That scene has stuck with me since I read the book. It was good to see something that I've experienced, but so few seem to understand, depicted so well.Raskoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02822701600889759415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-7184286129095755822022-06-03T15:30:30.244-07:002022-06-03T15:30:30.244-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Raskoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02822701600889759415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-21872533691354447632022-06-03T08:44:46.582-07:002022-06-03T08:44:46.582-07:00Not only did I read this book when it came out, I ...Not only did I read this book when it came out, I spotted it in the backlog shelves and catalogued it myself. Which is how I know for sure that <i>Bones of the Earth</i> is in the Vertebrate Paleontology branch library of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries even as I type. But there's no harm in grabbing a Kindle copy for myself, too ...JJMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13404985455733545060noreply@blogger.com