Forty Signs of Rain - Kim Stanley Robinson
Watchmen - Alan Moore
The first of four shipments I should receive this week from Amazon.com has arrived, and I have to say, it's bittersweet.
The books are great, no doubt about it. Robinson is the author of "The Years of Rice and Salt" (a sprawling epic alternate history in which Europeans were wiped out by the plague) and the Mars Trilogy (The only - and I use the term reluctantly - scifi series which can even remotely stand up to the Dune series, and shares many of the same themes: long-life, genetic engineering, space travel, ecology, philosophy, etc.). This new trilogy, which is scifi only in that it involves science and is a work of fiction, is a speculative series of novels that deals with the probable consequences of global warming.
Watchmen is, of course, the single most renowned graphic novel ever. For those that do not know, Moore is the author of "V For Vendetta" (though you wont find his name in the credits of the movie).
But it is bittersweet because even my mail carrier gives me flak about being hard to get ahold of. If I didn't know better, I'd think my friends and family paid him off to try and guilt-trip me about being so elusive. What's next? Is he going to start reading my student loan statements and shame me for not paying them on time? Will he chastise me for only taking my Netflix discs out of my mailbox and leaving all the bills?
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