Category: Science Fiction
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An attenuating peninsula of possibility
Via @dronemodule, a Kim Stanley Robinson joint on utopia as transgenerational revolutionary project, in which he gets more than a little Harawayian: “… the seven billion people we have, and the nine to ten billion people we’re likely to have, exist at the tip of an entire improvised complex of prostheses, which is our technology…
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Descending Olympus
So, that was Eastercon. My [stops to count old badges on lanyard] fifth, and my favourite so far. Well-organised, good fun; a great balance of the familiar and the new; old friends and fresh acquaintances… … and some dramatic props. [Thanks to Chad Dixon for the photo.] I often compare Eastercon to my experiences of…