New Harryhausen Projects

A group of scifi & fantasy fans who have been meeting since March of 2000. We meet on the first Sunday of each month at the downtown SLC Library.
Oh. My. God. Not a lot of books have me up until 3 in the morning because I can't put the book down. Vinge's Deepness in the Sky was one. A long time ago there was a story by Michael Ende (author of Neverending Story). And now it's Kindred. What a story. I'm really looking forward to talking about it come Sunday.
I'm really hoping the movie is done well. And I think it's interesting that the article there about the movie doesn't mention what the movie is really about. I suspect that there are a lot of folks who are hoping that this subject isn't talked about too much, to avoid all that public outcry that is bound to happen once certain parties get wind of it.
Just finished reading "Consilience - The Unity of Knowledge" by Edward O. Wilson. I think I'll be writing a more in-depth review. It's a book with an important idea: that all knowledge fits together, even the humanities with the physical sciences. Wilson bases his idea on two important and upsetting notions. The one is that human beings have a certain human nature in common, and so all people, and all cultures, can be compared with each other from that perspective. This bit will upset most liberals who have set their minds on some version or other of multiculturalism or cultural relativism. The other is that when it comes to ethics there are no external laws, only laws that people agree to because of the human nature that they hold in common. This bit will upset trancendentalists who believe that laws of ethics come from an external source, e.g. God.
July = Kindred