"Newton's Sleep."
Title | "Newton's Sleep." |
Year for Search | 1991 |
Authors | Le Guin, Ursula K[roeber](1929-2018) |
Secondary Authors | Aronica, Lou, Stout, Amy, and Mitchell, Betsy |
Secondary Title | Full Spectrum |
Volume / Edition | 3 |
Pagination | 251-74 |
Date Published | 1991 |
Publisher | Doubleday |
Place Published | New York |
Keywords | Female author, US author |
Annotation | The story begins in a very brief dystopia of a future North America with a destroyed environment and constant regional wars. The story then moves to a satellite that is supposed to be a eutopia based on reason, but anti-Semitism and the struggle for power undermine the eutopia while, at the end, imagination seems to be beginning to reshape even the physical layout. |
Additional Publishers | Rpt. in her A Fisherman of the Inland Sea: Science Fiction Stories (New York: HarperPrism, 1994), 23-55. |
Info Notes | The title comes from William Blake (1757-1827), who wrote "May God us keep/From Single Vision and Newton's sleep" in a letter of November 22, 1802, to Thomas Butt. The Letters of William Blake with Related Documents. 3rd ed. Ed. Geoffrey Keynes, Kt (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1980), 46. |
Holding Institutions | PSt |
Author Note | Female author (1929-2018) |
Full Text | 1991 Le Guin, Ursula K[roeber] (1929-2018). “Newton’s Sleep.” Full Spectrum 3. Ed. Lou Aronica, Amy Stout, and Betsy Mitchell (New York: Doubleday, 1991), 251-74. Rpt. in her A Fisherman of the Inland Sea: Science Fiction Stories (New York: HarperPrism, 1994), 23-55. The title comes from William Blake (1757-1827), who wrote “May God us keep/From Single Vision and Newton’s sleep” in a letter of November 22, 1802. to Thomas Butt. The Letters of William Blake with Related Documents. 3rd ed. Ed. Geoffrey Keynes, Kt (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1980), 46. PSt The story begins in a very brief dystopia of a future North America with a destroyed environment and constant regional wars. The story then moves to a satellite that is supposed to be a eutopia based on reason, but anti-Semitism and the struggle for power undermine the eutopia while, at the end, imagination seems to be beginning to reshape even the physical layout. Female author. |