The Giver by Lois Lowry is not exactly hard sci-fi, but it is set in a dystopian future and telepathy features prominently in the plot.
I keep racking my brains trying to come up with good sci-fi that isn't at all dark, but I'm not sure if it even exists.
How about Interstellar Pig or House of Stairs by William Sleator?
They are maybe kind of dark, but I read them when I was about 10 or 11 and they blew my mind in a wonderful way. Other books by William Sleator might be just as good, but I haven't read them so I don't know.
Interstellar Pig got a very positive critical response when it was first published in the 80s, and it is still one of my favorite books.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_Pighttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Stairs_(William_Sleator_novel)
Out of curiosity, what are the two languages you are referring to? I'm a linguistics undergrad, so this whole conversation is pretty interesting to me.
We certainly know which ocean species are useful to humans, and those are the ones we're talking about here. Finding a new kind of tiny crustacean that lives at the bottom of a trench by a hydrothermal vent doesn't change the global food economy. Running out of cod or salmon does, and those are numbers we DO know about. We're not just going to stumble upon a new population of nutritious sea creatures numbering in the millions.
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The Giver by Lois Lowry is not exactly hard sci-fi, but it is set in a dystopian future and telepathy features prominently in the plot. I keep racking my brains trying to come up with good sci-fi that isn't at all dark, but I'm not sure if it even exists.
How about Interstellar Pig or House of Stairs by William Sleator? They are maybe kind of dark, but I read them when I was about 10 or 11 and they blew my mind in a wonderful way. Other books by William Sleator might be just as good, but I haven't read them so I don't know. Interstellar Pig got a very positive critical response when it was first published in the 80s, and it is still one of my favorite books. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_Pig http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Stairs_(William_Sleator_novel)
Out of curiosity, what are the two languages you are referring to? I'm a linguistics undergrad, so this whole conversation is pretty interesting to me.
We certainly know which ocean species are useful to humans, and those are the ones we're talking about here. Finding a new kind of tiny crustacean that lives at the bottom of a trench by a hydrothermal vent doesn't change the global food economy. Running out of cod or salmon does, and those are numbers we DO know about. We're not just going to stumble upon a new population of nutritious sea creatures numbering in the millions.