Category: Worldbuilding
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I surrendered to the strangeness, and the strangeness started to make sense
Now, I’m not about to start listening to tapes again any time soon (though I did rescue a rather handsome wood-cheeked Akai tape deck from the miljörum a couple years back)… and there ain’t no one writing songs about my olive press, either.
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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.
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overgrown, with a rich ecosystem: Sheri S Tepper’s Grass
There are schismatic priesthoods! There is legacy Catholicism! There is a vanished alien race and the empty cities it left behind! There is… horse-riding?
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06MAY24 / video of Copenhagen worldbuilding lecture
The video of my lecture at Copenhagen University last month is available for your viewing pleasure.
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begin to remake who we are and how we live
On the one hand, [Buckminster] Fuller’s philosophy of change seems too hopeful now; it’s fair to wonder whether we have time for it.