(Post * Post) Colonialities
I will never trust a Boingboing! book recommendation again. The incessant recommendations for Doctorow’s work are understandable and three books later, I learned to just say no to the self-hyping and avoid the heaps of propaganda layered with shallow plot and even shallower characters. I was intrigued by how they hyped Sterling, again, understandable since [...]
Not a Sparrow Shall Fall
And wouldn’t you know it, nigh on four years ago, Brad Pitt purchased the rights for himself to play the central character of the Jesuit priest Emilio Sandoz. Having not read it at the time, I failed to notice this tidbit, but now cannot help but wonder how he will handle the surprise buttsecks bit. [...]
Thalamocortical Systems Out of Nowhere
Though the article itself (2Mb PDF) is in itself fascinating reading, confirming a view of the issue that I have held for a while now, what I find really interesting is how these things just fly in under the radar. I mean, one moment you are reading science fiction about lobster gastrointestinal ganglion simulations, then [...]
Parallax the Sloppy Writing
I am just a sucker for fancy packaging. In the case of novels, the packaging has traditionally been the book cover, with its blurbs and synopses and golden embossed type and scantily clad buxom lasses and phallic rocketguns and laserships and whatnot. However, in the digital era, all of these factors have taken a huge [...]
Sucked out the Marrow
Okay, so what do I do with the bone now? An interesting conundrum. I’ve read Marrow by one Robert Reed and thoroughly enjoyed it. The problem is, the Marrow I’ve linked to is not the one I’ve read. Rather, what I got my hands on was the novella that the novel is based on (funny… [...]
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