I was just looking for a great example of creative non-fiction and then remembered to come looking for you on here. Beautifully written. Glad you and your family made it through! I've skipped the review parts for now because Childhood's End keeps poking at me from various coincidental references and I feel the urge to read it soon.
Whether Clarke or the writer of a lesser alien apocalypse vision, we are the creatures we're so afraid of. The monsters don't need scales, gills, horns or tales, they are us.
I often ask myself if it's just a handful that are socio or psychopathic, or if many or even the majority of people given opportunity would behave the same.
I hope you escape the long term effects of Covid, so many suffer.
So very true Geoff. We always have been our own monsters. As for your query... I too have wondered this. The human mind is so adaptive and plastic that it can fill the mold of far too many templates. Frederick Douglass, the renowned abolitionist, put it so well: "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
Ugh! I'm glad you're feeling better. I've also dodged the covid bullet so far (and may have just now jinxed myself).
Clarke was brilliant, but I feel like he's one of those giants other authors can now pick up the torch and go even further with. I loved the way he could help your mind stretch.
I was just looking for a great example of creative non-fiction and then remembered to come looking for you on here. Beautifully written. Glad you and your family made it through! I've skipped the review parts for now because Childhood's End keeps poking at me from various coincidental references and I feel the urge to read it soon.
Thank you Jim 🙏🏽 Do read it when you have your next free moment... would love your take on it! It's so very on point for us right now.
Happy you conquered the virus. Love this writing, took my soul to forget anything while reading it. Brilliant!
Whether Clarke or the writer of a lesser alien apocalypse vision, we are the creatures we're so afraid of. The monsters don't need scales, gills, horns or tales, they are us.
I often ask myself if it's just a handful that are socio or psychopathic, or if many or even the majority of people given opportunity would behave the same.
I hope you escape the long term effects of Covid, so many suffer.
So very true Geoff. We always have been our own monsters. As for your query... I too have wondered this. The human mind is so adaptive and plastic that it can fill the mold of far too many templates. Frederick Douglass, the renowned abolitionist, put it so well: "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
Ugh! I'm glad you're feeling better. I've also dodged the covid bullet so far (and may have just now jinxed myself).
Clarke was brilliant, but I feel like he's one of those giants other authors can now pick up the torch and go even further with. I loved the way he could help your mind stretch.
Haha let me unjinx you then! I now have the power to do so :) We need never-coviders among us.
And yes the ladder of literature stretches far... no limit to the new rungs we can add