<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Gar Lipow</b> <<a href="mailto:the.typo.boy@gmail.com">the.typo.boy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 4/6/06, Daniel Davies <<a href="mailto:d_squared_2002@yahoo.co.uk">d_squared_2002@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>> I would suggest "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand.</blockquote><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
You know, that really does have a hell of a lot of appeal to<br>teenagers. Robin Hahnel thinks it is the most fun political novel ever<br>written.<br></blockquote></div><br>You guys missed the original stipulation that we're looking for short novels or novellas. Atlas Shrugged is four of those.
<br><br>I'll second Bujold's _Shards of Honor_, which I reread last night while thinking about this thread. As a bonus, it now comes bound together with _Barryar_.<br><br>Another good scifi suggestion would be _China Mountain Zhang_ by Maureen McHugh, which is not a unified romance between two people, but the plot line is driven by various romances, crushes, and love affairs.
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>John S Costello<br><a href="mailto:joxn.costello@gmail.com">joxn.costello@gmail.com</a><br>"[O]nce the running of the state involves a permanent and massive shortage of historical knowledge, that state can no longer be run strategically." -- Guy Debord