I am now reading Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed. I would like to thank Yo and Hong for recommending this excellent author. The different worlds she created in the book are very detailed and interesting. I cannot help but interpret the different societies portrayed in this work of science fiction to be rather extreme versions of the ones we have had throughout history.
From my choice of reading materials as of late, I guess I am turning out to be a fan of both utopian and dystopian fiction and non-fiction. I wonder if this has anything to do with my chosen career or my favorite childhood pastime. I used to imagine entire cities of talking animals: rabbits, birds, etc. and often made up situations wherein the different animals interacted with each other in the form of comics and short stories. I guess people were too difficult to draw or maybe too real and complicated to make fantastic stories of at that age. Haha, the ideas I had then were pretty strange. Maybe too much David Attenborough and Looney Tunes in the morning.
