Nick Doty’s Reviews > Always Coming Home > Status Update

Loving: the California ecosystem descriptions, future thinking about environmental disaster and its effects on California, the culture and myths around soil, plants, animals and birds. And now especially enticed by the separate computer network culture.

So far it is all that I had hoped: nature writing, futurism, world building and science fiction.

Nice to see the introductory comments about different translations of the Tao Te Ching, as I'm also reading her famous translation of the Tao Te Ching. Translating from a future language is an excellent conceit for speculative fiction / science fiction. Her argument is that the 'original' is never accessible anyway, and, very taoist, all that's available is the present.