It predicts solar power, the fax, etc. as well as supporting eugenics, gassing people and mass death. It's a mixture of really good pulp, parody of utopia, and nearly fascist approach to black nationalism. I would recommend.... (I'm also slowly working through Paz's excellent bio of Durutti....)
robert wood
> Hey LOBsters,
>
> I'm reading Kim Stanley Robinson's RED MARS. It's first novel in a
> trilogy--terra forming the red planet and the social relations springing
> therefrom... I got turned on to Kim by Gar Lipow's post concerning one of
> her
> speculative fiction novels...PACIFIC RIM, I think it was. I couldn't find
> that
> one in my local library. Still, RED MARS is quite engrossing, so far. On
> the
> non fictional side, I'm indulging in THE HITLER BOOK, edited by Henrik
> Eberle
> and Mattias Uhl-- the secret dossier prepared for Stalin by the NKVD.
> Lots of
> intimate, gossipy details here e.g. Hitler and his pals really love their
> military fashion--image, very important to these right-wing thugs.
>
> Curious,
> Mike B)
>
> Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the
> world organize as a class, take possession of the means of production,
> abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the Earth.
>
> http://www.iww.org/culture/official/preamble.shtml
>
>
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