Alison Page wrote:
David Here is a suggestion you might find useful for generating sf names: Arrange the consonants in some sort of order from 0 to 9, pick a number, convert the digits in said number to consonants, then insert vowels as appropriate.
That's the method the anarchist collective on Tau Ceti use to generate
their
names in Ursula Le Guin's novel 'The Dispossessed'. A very readable SF
novel
about politics, for those who like that kind of thing. It presents two competing political systems - capitalist and socialist/anarchist, from the point of view of a physicist who defects to the capitalist system.There's
a
short story too called 'The day before the revolution' about the revolutionary leader, Odo. I would recommend these stories for those who like the political aspects of B7, because she presents both systems in complex shades of grey.
I haven't read the short story, but 'The Dispossessed' is wonderful. I often recommend it to friends who don't like SF. Most enjoy it, and it's converted a few.
Nico