Book: Becoming alien
Aug. 30th, 2012 01:08 pmAuthor: Rebecca Ore
Details: (c) 1988 Rebecca Ore; Pub 1988 TOR; ISBN 0-812-54794-2
Verdict:Becoming alien is a satisfying and imaginative first contact book.
Reasons for reading it: I was travelling, and wanted something both reasonably easy to get into intellectually, and in the physically sensible format of an old-fashioned, 300-page small paperback.
How it came into my hands: There was a bookseller in the Eastercon dealers' room last year who did a kind of hard sell thing, but since what he was pushing was 50p paperbacks I wasn't too offended. Basically he asked me to describe the kind of SF I like, and this is in fact pretty close to exactly the book I described, so he didn't do a bad job.
( detailed review )
Details: (c) 1988 Rebecca Ore; Pub 1988 TOR; ISBN 0-812-54794-2
Verdict:Becoming alien is a satisfying and imaginative first contact book.
Reasons for reading it: I was travelling, and wanted something both reasonably easy to get into intellectually, and in the physically sensible format of an old-fashioned, 300-page small paperback.
How it came into my hands: There was a bookseller in the Eastercon dealers' room last year who did a kind of hard sell thing, but since what he was pushing was 50p paperbacks I wasn't too offended. Basically he asked me to describe the kind of SF I like, and this is in fact pretty close to exactly the book I described, so he didn't do a bad job.
( detailed review )
