After i read that story--thirty or so years in the past, a few decade after it came out--I believed that last thought was a bit silly, however then I assumed the concept of plant communication was unlikely, too, Shows what I do know! Donna Haraway is just not afraid to be silly, and so she picks right up with Le Guin. Haraway's fearlessness is usually alloyed with the worst forms of educational prose. Some instances this works out all proper--Primate Visions and Modest Witness had been each attention-grabbing, regardless of their spectacularly unhealthy writing. Studying them, I considered a very sensible mathematician, making jumps, protecting steps that slower people couldn't quite comply with: so she was saved because she was write and had attention-grabbing conclusions, even if they didn't at all times comply with from the evidence. Right here, Haraway continues to be making jumps, and I believe she might be mainly right, but her conclusions usually are not so fascinating, and this e-book feels poorly put together--a rushed assemblage of assorted articles, stitched together, quite than a cohesive entire.