Newton's Sleep

'''Le Guin, Ursula K. "Newton's Sleep." 1991. In A Fisherman of the Inland Sea.''' New York: Harper Prism, 1994.

Long short story "the immediate action taking place in the Spes [space habitat] Colony: i.e., a colony established by the Special Earth Satellite Society, at a gravitational balance point between Earth and the Moon (the 'L5' Lagrangian point is a likely spot." See for the sanitized, scientific, "Newtonian" habitat reclaimed by Earth. Discussed by Richard D. Erlich in his essay "Le Guin and God […]," Extrapolation 47.3 (Winter 2006): 351-79.  and a "Study Guide for Stories Collected in Ursula K. Le Guin's Fisherman of the Inland Sea."

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