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New ideas from reading
One of the joys of reading for me is that occasionally I come across a new idea or concept, and it stretches my mind. For example, in The Ice Owl by Carolyn Ives Gilman the main protagonist is a young woman whose mother seduced a man on an outlying planet. The young woman and her mother are fugitives because the mother refused to abort the pregnancy, and the father charged her with copyright violation (a very severe crime on that planet) for using his genes without his knowledge and consent, and insisted that she pay him massive royalties.
Does anyone else derive pleasure from new ideas like this? Do you have any examples?
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