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- Retro techI am reading Translation State by Ann Leckie (sequel to the Imperial Radch trilogy 1 2 3 I favorably reviewed, fucking hell, ten years ago). It is a far-flung high-tech space opera published in 2024, near-Culture levels of tech, or at the very least, well beyond Star Trek with warp capability etc. It’s a lovely… Read more: Retro tech
- Through a lens familiarlyA continuation, I reckon, of a re-read of Stephen Fry’s Greek myths, certainly not because Hades II had a recent full release or anything so puerile as that, though this time I’m all the way at the Odyssey. Telemachus, son-of-Odysseus, looks just like his old man–a “chip off the old block” as Helen-via-the relentlessly-English-Fry puts… Read more: Through a lens familiarly
- The shedding of old ways of thinkingIn celebration of the honor awarded watercolor artist and author Obi Kaufmann last week, I started flipping through my copy of The State of Water and had my mind blown, linguistically: I always associated ‘shed’, in the context of ‘watershed’, with sloughing something off, shedding it like a skin. So, when I saw ‘watershed’ on… Read more: The shedding of old ways of thinking
- Le Guin was right about everything part 58 of“The one I liked best was the one where Mr. Spock had to go home because he was in heat,” I said to her. “Except he never, you know,” she said. “They just had a fight over the girl, him and Captain Kirk, and then they left.” “That’s his pride,” I said, obscurely. I was… Read more: Le Guin was right about everything part 58 of
- “The sky above the port was the color of a television, tuned to a dead channel.”I’ve been thinking about this image. It’s older, from circa 2013, and shockingly difficult to find concrete information on–including the photographer, where I list the only attribution I could find. This is Tiananmen Square in Beijing. It may well no longer be an accurate picture of Beijing; I’ve found mixed reports online. But best I… Read more: “The sky above the port was the color of a television, tuned to a dead channel.”
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- Retro tech
- Through a lens familiarly
- The shedding of old ways of thinking
- Le Guin was right about everything part 58 of
- “The sky above the port was the color of a television, tuned to a dead channel.”
- Nobody wants to be in the after-school program.
- Queen Bitch
- I pet the electric sheep and felt a surge of well-being when it nuzzled me.
- The unbearable stillness of not-knowing
- bildungsroman
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