Reading for fun, threads over the years of scifi, history, social movements and justice, farming, philosophy. I actively work to balance out the white male default in what I read, but have a long way to go.
He/they for the praxis.
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The Promise is the story of a family, but also of a country, over forty …
Disturbing, a thread of attention wandering across the long moment, fixing on the flaws life leaves unfinished. But, that.
If you find yourself engaged in a civil war, don't be so civil about it.
A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed--according to Nabokov's …
Absurdly wonderful, manipulative without being a mystery, adventurous and so mundane.
Perfect popcorn reading, 80s nostalgic and sci-fi time travel in quick sarcastic bites. (I read the next two too, which wraps it all up in 30 issues, and this review will do for them all.)
Reality is indefinitely separate from our actual experience, our senses of progress and our identities. The short "The New World" essays are stunning philosophical reflections, the bulk is summary commentary on Thoreau, Whitman, and Melville as they conceive of human society which was more dependent on my taste for those voices but still smart.
Poetic commentary (now I love Carson's analytical voice too) on value, money, gratuity, loss, and negation.
The story of a man with a vision - immortality : for those who can …
Speaking my language at 14 or 40, hard implications for immortality and self-redefinition in computationally simulated brain scans and artificially evolved life.
The first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy, inspired by the civilizations of …
As it says on the wrapper, part one of an epic fantastical adventure based in pre-columbian mesoamerica-ish with high priests and dark magic and factional intrigue and primarily women and enby characters.
The story of a man with a vision - immortality : for those who can …
Gonna talk this one over in my head for a few.
A year's meditation on the same nearby square of forest floor, as short essays by a biology professor relating and explicating the changing now to biological and evolutionary processes at all scales. Philosophical throughout, regularly upending the distinction between observer and subject, dissolving the objective stance for an interdependent understanding.
Sweeping space opera, buddy adventure, close meditations on time and distance and chosen family, epic struggle for the galaxy, didn't all gel for me but still accomplishes more than mismatched genre.
The first murder in 500 years. Twenty billion suspects. One hope.
The City Enduring, a …
Beautiful, angry, clever.
These are all powerful, painful, and intricately constructed for short stories, all on themes of Haiti and immigration, relationships gone awry, lives distorted.
Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as …
Clearly titled, global financial crises and gluts are not primarily due to rational investor pursuit of productive capacity but excesses of central bank liquidity, capital mobility, and savings by elites (that is, depressing wages and consumption domestically), and trade imbalances are pulled by foreign demand for investment/assets inexorably. Convincing data and histories, though the writing often jumps to details before giving the point.
Speculative, creative, gruesome, queer and color across a wide spectrum of precarious dystopias.