Islandia
by Austin Tappan Wright
Recommended by Tim O’Reilly and Tim O_x0092_Reilly
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Science Fiction, and Fantasy.
Austin Tappan Wright left the world a wholly unsuspected legacy. After he died in a tragic accident, among this distinguished legal scholar's papers were found thousands of pages devoted to a staggering feat of literary creationa detailed history of an imagined country complete with geography, genealogy, literature, language and culture. As detaile...
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Science Fiction, and Fantasy.
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“A utopian novel written in the 1930s, about an imaginary country where Technology, has not yet hastened the pace of life, and where people find time to nurture relationships and the land they live on. Also a novel of the long view. My first Sun workstation was named Isla, and the dream of living on the land was a part of my move to Sebastopol. Physical labor is a wonderful antidote to the life of the mind.”
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 13 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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