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   October 30, 2012

   Lindsay

   What a great list! I love China Mieville for his own wildly inventive fiction, and he got all the major ones I was thinking of (mostly, The Dispossessed and Iain M. Banks’s “Culture” novels).

   I’m a bit surprised he picked “The Yellow Wallpaper” over Herland to represent Charlotte Perkins Gilman, though! “Yellow Wallpaper” is great literature, and it does exactly what he says it does, which is paint a chilling picture of how power can exert itself in sinister ways even in the context of a loving romantic or family relationship, but Herland a) is actually SF, and b) actually depicts an alternative society based on an egalitarian and communal ethic.

   I hadn’t heard of most of those books, though. You’re right, they do all look interesting. (And he also proposes some very novel interpretations of some books I have read …)

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