![]() It's a hard-sci-fi story about how various societies, human and alien, attempt to assert control & hegemony over centuries of time (in many ways thinking of this as a distributed systems and code documentation problem!), and how critical and impactful the role of language translation is in helping people to understand foreign ways of thinking.Īt the novel's core is a question very akin to that of philosophical antipositivism : is it possible (or optimal for your society's stability) to appreciate and emphasize with people wholly different from yourselves, without interpreting their thoughts and cultures in language and description that's familiar to yourselves. ![]() Highly, highly recommend Vinge's A Deepness In The Sky, which won the Hugo in 2000. ![]()
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