#61: Red Mars
Red Mars, K.S. Robinson’s Nebula winner of 1994, read out of order, possibly in summer 2016? Number 61 in the 99books countdown.
Inexplicably tucked with tiny strips of paper, torn from the receipt from Hudson Bookseller, a bookstore in the Seatac airport.
p. 217: the only work I’ve fiction I’ve ever read that tried to explain the Greimas square
p. 297: a discourse on economics (and aerobotany) -- reminding me of the puzzle of technical topics in fictional works
p. 395: the words “the weakness of businessmen” scrawled in tiny letters on the strip of receipt. On on the page: “The weakness of businessmen was their belief that money was the point of the game; they worked 14-hour days in order to earn enough of it to buy cars with leather interiors, they thought it was a sensible recreation to play around with it in casinos--idiots, in short.”
p. 452: another scribble representing the point of view of the character Chalmers: “young men and women, educated very carefully to be apolitical, to be technicians who thought they disliked politics, making them putty in the hands of their rulers....”
p. 572: the last page, with acknowledgments facing.