The Middle Ground

SFSignal points us to this google video presentation of LeGuin’s The Lathe of Heaven

File 770 points us to this book signing for Niven and Pournelle’s Escape From Hell

Didnt’ Milton write something like ‘it is better to rule in hell than serve in heaven’…? I wonder – is it better to escape from hell than to be turned on the lathe of heaven.

No point wrestling with deep philosophical questions of the theologic type: in either case, fans are sure to be rewarded by both possibilities.