Category: Science Fiction
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i’d buy that for a dollar
There’s never been a day when I wondered how Tim Maughan broke through way bigger and better than I did.
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that gradient reflects the centrality of a technology to the narrative
Cory Doctorow (re)defines science fiction, so we don’t have to.
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heavy threads
The point is that I still think of those old-web values as my values, but I have nonetheless gotten remarkably sloppy about actually living them.
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this is all I know and all I dream
I saw Megalopolis the week before last and wanted to write about it, but—rather pathetically, perhaps—flinched off doing so.
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pause for a moment to reflect on the enormous significance of this
A work of science fiction is never about the time in which it is supposedly set; it’s about the time in which it is written. Which means that the question we should be asking ourselves is why this particular myth […] is the one that’s bubbling through right now.