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The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester Alfred Bester wrote two important science fiction novels in the 1950s - The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination. While I have some reservations

For SF from 1956 The Stars My Destination is quite amazing.

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Why is every Democratic Governor not standing with him & saying this in unison?

Next step they publicly call on every Repub governor to join them in denouncing the regime's blatant authoritarianism. Sure Repubs won't join but it's how you shift the narrative!

Why are Dems so bad at politics!? 🤯

Where the Axe Is Buried by Ray Nayler Ray Nayler’s haunting novel, Where the Axe Is Buried, draws us into a dystopian world governed in most countries by AIs, and in one Federation, by a

Another masterpiece from Ray Nayler: Where the Axe Is Buried

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The Folded Sky (White Space Book 3) by Elizabeth Bear Elizabeth Bear’s The Folded Sky, the third novel in her White Space series, tells a stand-alone story, full of grand space opera tropes, including

Rough month re health, except for a great family visit and seeing an unforgettable staging of Cabaret at the Guthrie - and reading Elizabeth Bear's The Folded Sky - which I really liked:

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The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester In 1953 Alfred Bester won the first Hugo award for his novel, The Demolished Man. It’s easy to see why. This is a fast-paced story in an interesting

A classic that would be great if not for the bizarre ideas about women and psychology: Bester's The Demolished Man

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Film Review: Superman (2025) Who knew you could laugh during a Superman movie? After the long night of the Snyderverse, the new Superman  feels like a much-needed palate...

Great review - celebrating Superman &co for the right reasons

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Sleep Phase by Mohamed Kheir, Translated by Robin Moger Mohamed Kheir’s Sleep Phase, beautifully translated by Robin Moger (who also translated Kheir's story collection, Slipping) brought to mind related

Mohamed Kheir's Sleep Phase is a beautiful short novel in an excellent translation - even more interesting than his story collection Slipping.
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Rebellions Are Built on Hope: Andor S2E10 In season two, I never expected to become such a fan of Luthen and Kleya. In some ways, episode nine is the end of Andor season two in that...

My favorite in a series covering each episode in season 2 of Andor
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Atomic Age Anxiety: Why 1950s Sci-Fi B-Movies Still Matter Today The 1950s were steeped in Cold War paranoia, nuclear dread, and a dawning awareness that human progress could be as destructive as it was miraculous. While A-list sci-fi films like The Day the Earth S...

I grew up with the Cold War brainwashing and nuclear dread these films depict and saw many of them when they came out - they're worth taking a look at for the reasons this good article describes - in many ways we're back there, only worse.

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The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses by Malka Older Malka Older, activist, scholar, teacher, international humanitarian worker and author of The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses is one of my culture heroes

Another great installment in the Mossa and Pleiti series by Malka Older:

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How French ‘merveilleux-scientifique’ fiction reframed reality | Aeon Essays With brain swaps and death rays, a little-known French sci-fi genre explored science’s dark possibilities a century ago

Great article on post-Jules Verne French science fiction that I had never heard of before.

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Malka Older, one of my culture heroes, has a new book in the Mossa and Pleiti sci-fi mystery series - The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses. I'm working on a review. Anyone else read it yet? What did you think?

Andor and the Reimagining of Star Wars Star Wars, as a franchise, is almost 50 years old. It remains extraordinarily popular - as much or more than any other cinematic universe. A...

Excellent essay on Andor and Star Wars generally. I agree that Andor is a masterpiece, even if it were taken out of its SW context.

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Thank you! That's a new one to me - I'll check it out soon -

I'm looking for books like Tchaikovsky's Alien Clay and Shroud that describe both sides of a first contact situation and explore an emerging relationship between the two rather than conflict - any ideas?

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Film Review: The King Tide What if we were really nice to the kid in Omelas? Life has proceeded uneventfully on a secluded island of fishermen, somewhere in Canada, fo...

Interesting film review of King Tide - a film I hadn't heard of before - about a miracle girl who can heal and the effect she has over time on a small village.

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Thank you! Just what I was looking for -

She Who Knows and One Way Witch by Nnedi Okorafor #Wyrd&Wonder She Who Knows and One Way Witch are the first two novellas in Nnedi Okorafor’s She Who Knows trilogy. This series, in turn, is part of her larger

Thinking of the desert as a kind of ocean for Wyrd and Wonder? - here's a review of Nnedi Okorafor's She Who Knows

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Lake of Darkness by Adam Roberts Adam Roberts’ Lake of Darkness is an absorbing story of utopia and evil in a space opera drama that spans multiple worlds, all of which enjoy a

This is my first Adam Roberts novel, and I'm hooked enough to go back through his output. Any recommendations? Here's my review of Lake of Darkness:

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Here's an interesting take on putting together an alien world and language:

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Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor Death of the Author marks the second time (the first being Who Fears Death) Nnedi Okorafor has led me through a reading experience that felt interesting

Anyone have thoughts about Okorafor's Death of the Author?
Here's my review:

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Dissolution by Nicholas Binge At its core, Dissolution by Nicholas Binge is a love story about a fiercely determined 83 year-old woman who is trying to recapture the memory and hence

Nicholas Binge's Dissolution is a strong sci-fi thriller with great observation of human relationships, aging and memory

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My work is to learn as much as I can about SF. There are many good writers these days who borrow SF tropes to supplement their work in other genres. There can be fine books written that way, but they take me from my current purpose, however insightful they may be. Does that make a little more sense?

Has anyone read Dissolution by Nicholas Binge? I've just started and not sure I want to finish - it's good and insightful about people but is it SF enough?
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Leading a Movement Away From Psychiatric Medication Laura Delano walked away from the treatments that defined her teens and 20s. Now, she’s hoping to create a road map for others to follow.

An important article about getting off psychotropic medications:

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Film Review: Mickey 17 The human being in the age of its mechanical reproducibility I've already written on this blog about the questions, both abstract and pract...

Reading this fine review of Mickey 17

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Exploring the Four Rarest Trees on Earth | Moss and Fog We've gathered a list of four of the rarest trees on the planet.

Reading about these incredible trees trying to survive in our world:

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The Sentence by Gautam Bhatia Much like his earlier novels, The Wall and The Horizon, Gautam Bhatia has created a secondary world with action taking place within a single city in his

I urge everyone to read Gautam Bhatia's The Sentence, a different kind of sci-fi novel that is unforgettable.

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Lunar: A History of the Moon in Myths, Maps and Matter It’s been a while since I discussed science books for scifi readers, and that’s due to all my down time, not any lack of great books. But then I found

Here's my review of Lunar, A History of the Moon in Myths, Maps and Matter. It's an oversized book full of beautiful illustrations and fascinating essays.

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Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky Adrian Tchaikovsky takes on familiar themes in Alien Clay, but, as always, he shuffles the cards of his imagined realities to create a story that is also

Hard to believe how many good books Tchaikovsky is churning out right now. Alien Clay is one of them.

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