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Bezig met laden... Sugar in the Air (editie 2009)door E. C. Large (Auteur)
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Back in print after an absence of nearly 70 years, the facsimile edition of E. C. Large's novelSugar in the Air is what we now call a "mash-up," made up of scientific research, social satire, and fictional flights of fancy.Sugar in the Air (1937) is a "scientific romance" in which the idea of extracting sugar from the air is held, for the duration of the book, in suspended disbelief by characters desperate for work in a period of economic recession. A description of the product development and manufacturing process doubles as a critique of capitalism's stewardship of technological progress that suggests alternative production models for today's designers. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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As so often, this early novel has a quaint bearing on our modern predicament. The main novelty lies in the commercial exploitation of artificial photosynthesis binding carbondioxide from the atmosphere with water to produce carbohydrates, hence the title «Sugar in the Air». Of course air pollution and global warming do not play a role in the novel. A peculiar and less appealing feature of the novel is the fact that the author, apparently quite randomly likes to include all kinds of technical terminology and other unusual and difficult vocabulary in the book. These words are not related to technical or chemical processes in the novel and I do not really understand why this is done other than making the book more impressive and difficult to understand.
The book wasn't very exciting but should perhaps be read as a curiosity, first, because it's an early example of a science fiction novel, secondly, maybe one day the atmosphere becomes so saturated with CO2 that commercially binding this greenhouse gas does become a feasible option. ( )