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Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation …
In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of …
Comfort reread :)
After a decade-long relationship with a dominatrix he called Daddy, Emerson Whitney had begun to crave something besides submission. It …
Are alternative energies and Green New Deals enough to deliver environmental justice? Peter Gelderloos argues that international governmental responses to …
What if family were not the only place you might hope to feel safe, loved, cared for and accepted?
What …
When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The Wayfarer, a patched-up ship that's seen …
What if family were not the only place you might hope to feel safe, loved, cared for and accepted?
What …
Chip's propensity for unreliable/unlikeable narrators makes his books a bit of a slog sometimes, but he's still one of my favourites cause there's always layers of intent going on under the writing and he's so fucking smart and funny. Love imagining an occupied solar system with queer cooperative living and on-demand informed consent gender- and sexuality-affirming health tech, but! Theres a lot of dodging and ducking in and around the question of utopia here and the almost-campy idealized aspects of the society and tech play into these explorations. Loved it.
I found this interview/seminar with Chip from 1986 which shed a lot of light on his ideas around this book, specifically around the question of utopia/heterotopia and SciFi and how this book is in dialogue with LeGuin's The Disposessed. www.depauw.edu/sfs/interviews/delany52interview.htm
