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Genesis Redux by Dylan S. Hearn

Hearne mixes complex, gritty politics with technology just beyond our own to create a dystopia that is both surprising and all too familiar. This novel is the third volume in the Transcendence Trilogy. As such, the remainder of this data file poses a risk of corrupting the users surprise file for previous volumes. Nico Tandelli … Continue reading Genesis Redux by Dylan S. Hearn

The Shell Does Not Look Like The Yolk

This comic from The Nib explains why I think trigger warnings can be a good thing. Because they aren’t about protecting weak people from a light bruise; they’re about supporting people who are so strong you haven’t noticed they had a leg ripped off.

Happy Blogversary to Me

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. – Plato

Chasing Nonconformity by Michelle Proulx

Balancing an eye for the absurd with actual danger, Proulx creates a science-fiction tale that is light and fast without being shallow or cloying. This novel is the second in the Imminent Danger series. Thus, ‘spoilers, darling’. Still annoyed after the revelation that Varrin’s thoughtful gift was actually a marriage contract, Eris Miller wants a … Continue reading Chasing Nonconformity by Michelle Proulx

Hidden Heroes

This doesn’t really need glossing. However, to give personal context, I played with a doll houses when I was young and grew up to be manly enough.

A Kind of Hush

A charming Russian gentleman who apparently has a consignment of Nikon EOS 80D cameras available at bargain prices on his website*, left a comment on one of my posts saying the audio quality on this website might be the best he’d ever encountered. As a lover of silence myself, I’m glad my efforts brought some … Continue reading A Kind of Hush

The Island of Birds by Austin Hackney

Combining a full-rendered alternate world of ether-sailing dirigibles, steam-tanks, and social inequality, with a style and language both accessible to older primary school children and engaging enough for adult readers, Hackney crafts a steampunk novel that is likely to retain depth on a subsequent reading. This book is the second in the Dark Sea’s Trilogy. … Continue reading The Island of Birds by Austin Hackney

Haiku

Someone was kind enough to compliment my latest haiku, so I thought I’d spread the love: Darkness becomes light Forgiveness is only bliss Comparatively 

The Remnant Keeper by Robert Scott-Norton

Mixing a surveillance society that doesn’t stop with death with character-driven thrills, Scott-Norton provides a tale that will please both thriller and science-fiction fans. In the near future, telepaths are both the hated Other and a useful tool. And of all telepaths, the most extreme of both are the Remnant Keepers, telepaths trained to read … Continue reading The Remnant Keeper by Robert Scott-Norton

Some Notes Towards A Meta-epistemological Manifesto

Originally posted on mishaburnett:
I had an epiphany today. I have always mistrusted the concept of genre.  It has seemed to me to be both a hobble and a crutch.  By which I mean that by accepting a specific genre designation an author restricted her or his writing to an abbreviated range, while at the…