What was the background of your students? I wonder how much appreciation depends on understanding the physics -- IIRC he explains it well in the story, but both D and I had an explosion of whoa, that is really cool that I might imagine would be lacking to someone who wasn't familiar with the principle of least action, for example.
The Goodman is the one that isn't a "hey, everyone should read this," which is why it only barely squeaked on. I don't know that I recommend it.
Clearly you have a better reading pedigree than I do :) Until grad school, my reading exposure was mostly in the way of "whatever existed in my local library SF section," which was rather highly variable -- meant I got exposed to Asimov and Harlan Ellison and Connie Willis, and a lot of wonderful old short stories because they happened to have best-of anthologies dating back to the 1950's, but had barely even heard of Bujold or Butler. (Although they did have a couple of Butlers, I was also too young for her at the time.)
Well, do you have books in the way of "Everyone ought to read this!" from the last decade?
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Date: 2011-01-20 05:42 pm (UTC)The Goodman is the one that isn't a "hey, everyone should read this," which is why it only barely squeaked on. I don't know that I recommend it.
Clearly you have a better reading pedigree than I do :) Until grad school, my reading exposure was mostly in the way of "whatever existed in my local library SF section," which was rather highly variable -- meant I got exposed to Asimov and Harlan Ellison and Connie Willis, and a lot of wonderful old short stories because they happened to have best-of anthologies dating back to the 1950's, but had barely even heard of Bujold or Butler. (Although they did have a couple of Butlers, I was also too young for her at the time.)
Well, do you have books in the way of "Everyone ought to read this!" from the last decade?