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from the Spells, Space & Screams: Collections & Anthologies in Fantasy, Science Fiction, & Horror group.
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Solarpunk is a type of optimistic science fiction that imagines a future founded on renewable energies. The seventeen stories in this volume are not dull utopias—they grapple with real issues such as the future and ethics of our food sources, the connection between technology and nature, and the interpersonal conflicts that arise no matter how peaceful the world is. In these pages you’ll find a guerilla art installation in Milan, a murder mystery set in a weather manipulation facility, and a world where you are judged by the glow of your solar nanite implants. From an opal mine in Australia to the seed vault at Svalbard, from a wheat farm in Kansas to a crocodile ranch in Malaysia, these are stories of adaptation, ingenuity, and optimism for the future of our world and others.
For readers who are tired of dystopias and apocalypses, these visions of a brighter future will be a breath of fresh air.
The Invasion of Venus by Stephen Baxter ★★★★☆ Like an exciting version of Rendezvous with Rama, Baxter crushes human importance in the universe.
I have read Vern’s From the Earth to the Moon and you definitely would not survive, but in Laika’s Ghost they imply some new science to that old concept.
Laika’s Ghost by Karl Schroeder ★★★★½ When an American finds evidence of a Russian pyramid on Mars he is hunted down by Google and other geopolitical entities. Declining American witness protection he flees to Russia. This proves to be a great decision because a small group of online patriots have been creating a new hope for Russia, and possibly the world.
Old school marvel fans will always catch their lies.
I saw The Eternals, it was oddly like Jupiter Ascending, a movie everyone hated but me, and I only liked it because I thought it would make an excellent dark David Lynch movie. It has probably the choppiest, most abrupt beginning of any marvel movie and there are many such quibbles but hey there was also a gay Muslim, a deaf superhero, a Latina leader, etc. Maybe the best part was the moment the heroes realize they may not be heroes and that world/universe is a very grey place indeed.
Watching the Music Dance by Kristine Katheryn Rusch ★★★☆☆ That was a sad story about the extremes of parenting. One parent pushed too hard and the other must sacrifice the rest of their lives to remedy the situation. That’s either poignant or dismal.
Malak by Peter Watts ★★☆☆☆ Oh what a tedious first story. This is striker drone with updated collateral damage software talking to itself. Damage by David D. Levine is better version of this type of story.
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A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon a Star by Kathleen Ann Goonan DNF
Nazis, Sexism and the Space Program. Would it kill you to include some happy stories? Seriously, WTF?
Nov 12, 2021 07:26AM
The Devil in America by Kai Ashante Wilson DNFI struggle through some of this in the spirit of BLM but then it just got weird and even more boring.
Nov 10, 2021 06:44PM
The World is Full of Monsters by Jeff Vandermeer DNFI never know what to make of Jeff Vandermeer. It’s like modern poetry stretched into a story, which sounds lovely, but if the poem didn’t make sense what hope is there for the story?
It’s not as fun without them!
Thank you Canavan!
Due to GRs tempestuous image policy….https://lenaleigh.blogspot.com/2021/1...
Yes, it’s basic. but it will take awhile for me to learn CSS and this situation has disrupted my reading enough.
The Butcher’s Table by Nathan Ballingrud ★★★★★
Hideous beauty, confronting and objectionable grace - everything I ever wanted from Clive Barker.
The Visible Filth ★★★★☆ A bartender finds a cell phone with gruesome images that infect his life and those around him. You never find out if it’s Heaven or Hell at play but salvation is viewed as a life less ordinary.
Autocorrect is vicious beast. And typing with one finger often scuttles my sentences.
You meant Sleeping Betty?
