January 10, 2022
In Birthday of the world, Aniara Omann touches on existential terrain that forms a metaphysical relation between Earth and Mars in a figurative manner. Borrowing the title from science-fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin, Omann points at the question of humanity’s situatedness in (re)configurations of worlding and unworlding.
Suggested Reading:
Ursula K Leguin: The Birthday of the World and other stories, Short story collection (published 2002)
Arthur C Clarke: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Clifford D Simak: City (1952)
Tove Jannson: Comet in Moominland (1946)
Robert A. Heinlein: The Rolling Stones (1952) [read just for the flat cats!]
Robert A. Heinlein: Starship Troopers (1959)
Robert A. Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)
Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter: The Long Earth (2012)
Philip K. Dick: Colony (1953, short story)
Philip K. Dick: Do Androids dream of electric sheep? (1968)
Frank Herbert: Dune (all books)
Samuel R. Delany: Triton (1976)
Mark von Schlegel: Venusia (2016)
