When i read that story--thirty or so years in the past, a couple of decade after it got here out--I assumed that closing thought was a bit foolish, however then I believed the thought of plant communication was unlikely, too, Exhibits what I do know! Donna Haraway just isn't afraid to be silly, and so she picks right up with Le Guin. Haraway's fearlessness is often alloyed with the worst forms of academic prose. Some instances this works out all proper--Primate Visions and Modest Witness have been each fascinating, regardless of their spectacularly unhealthy writing. Studying them, I thought of a extremely smart mathematician, making jumps, overlaying steps that slower people couldn't quite comply with: so she was saved as a result of she was write and had attention-grabbing conclusions, even when they did not all the time comply with from the evidence. Right here, Haraway remains to be making jumps, and I think she is probably basically right, but her conclusions are not so fascinating, and this ebook feels poorly put collectively--a rushed assemblage of varied articles, stitched together, quite than a cohesive whole.