The Sunday Times
Plus – Review of “Numbercaste” by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
by Rohan Samarajiva
“I have long been a reader of science fiction not just for entertainment, but also for insights useful for my research and teaching. After all, the very word cyberspace was coined by William Gibson, a luminary of the cyberpunk sub-genre. I like all forms of sci-fi, but find near-future science fiction the most illuminating. So I not only read, but recommend.A friend teaching about social aspects of ICTs once explained she had trouble following my reading recommendations: the plots were mostly formulaic quests, she said. The characters were two-dimensional and not fully developed. She was implying it was a male genre; Zane Gray and Rider Haggard reworked…”
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