{"id":1744,"date":"2010-08-09T17:17:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T21:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2010-08-09T17:17:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T21:17:26","slug":"human-contact-summer-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2010\/human-contact-summer-reading-list","title":{"rendered":"Human Contact Summer Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1745\" title=\"On Tender Hooks: the Art of Isabel Samaras\" src=\"http:\/\/joshuanewmandesign.com\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/TenderHooks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/TenderHooks.jpg 600w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/TenderHooks-300x142.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read a good number of books leading up to the creation of Human Contact. They&#8217;re all about the challenges of interacting between cultures. If you like these books, you&#8217;ll probably like the game!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Telling, by Ursula K. LeGuin<\/li>\n<li>The Left Hand of Darkness, ibid.<\/li>\n<li>The Player of Games, by Iain M. Banks<\/li>\n<li>Use of Weapons, ibid.<\/li>\n<li>Foundation, Isaac Asimov<\/li>\n<li>Foundation and Empire, ibid.<\/li>\n<li>Second Foundation, ibid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But you probably (if irate emails and forum posts are any indication) think that I&#8217;m <strong>grossly negligent<\/strong> because I haven&#8217;t read your favorite book.\u00a0 This is your big chance! I&#8217;ve started keeping an <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.com\/w\/1LS10L2WYIFR5\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Amazon wish list<\/strong><\/a> of the books that I <em>obviously<\/em> ought to have read, according to Shock: enthusiasts.<\/p>\n<p>Put your money where your mouth is! Recommend me some books, I&#8217;ll put them on the list, and if you really care, you&#8217;ll spend a couple of dollars to send it to me. I&#8217;ll at least start reading them. If they suck, I won&#8217;t finish them! If it winds up influencing the book, I&#8217;ll enthusiastically thank you in the credits to Human Contact when it&#8217;s a real thing. Please buy me cheap, used versions, as long as they&#8217;re legible, unless you&#8217;re really keen to spend money or you feel the cover illustration is really beautiful or something.\u00a0 I think there&#8217;s even a way to just send one as a gift, without it being on a list, though I&#8217;m not sure. If you have to search, I&#8217;m the Joshua Newman in Florence, MA.<\/p>\n<p>If you didn&#8217;t send it to me, don&#8217;t complain that I haven&#8217;t read it. If you sent it to me and I didn&#8217;t read it, you can complain.<\/p>\n<p>Sound like a good deal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read a good number of books leading up to the creation of Human Contact. They&#8217;re all about the challenges of interacting between cultures. If you like these books, you&#8217;ll probably like the game! The Telling, by Ursula K. LeGuin The Left Hand of Darkness, ibid. The Player of Games, by Iain M. Banks Use &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2010\/human-contact-summer-reading-list\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Human Contact Summer Reading List&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-human-contact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}