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Uncanny Valley Digest: Cordwainer Smith Redux

Posted on 26 July 2019 by Suhail Rafidi

Our Cordwainer Smith discussion twanged like a rubber rock band! We’ve read Cordwainer Smith before, but wanted to drill down a little deeper. For good background information, below is a link to a 2018 piece in Johns Hopkins Magazine on … Continue reading →

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Film: Ralph Bakshi’s American Pop

Posted on 24 February 2019 by Suhail Rafidi

Ralph Bakshi’s American Pop (1981) is an animated film about the trajectory of pop music and songwriting in America over the course of four generations of aspiring musicians; Zalmie, Ben, Tony, and Lil’ Pete. It is an exceptional film, enough … Continue reading →

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Uncanny Valley Digest: Liu Cixin’s The Poetry Cloud

Posted on 31 July 2018 by Suhail Rafidi

Last night’s Poetry Cloud discussion was the bubbles rising! Inventive, playful, manga-like. Three folklorish characters play out a science fiction stage drama: a poet (farmed for consumption), a dinosaur (which eats poets), and a god walk into a parsec wafer … Continue reading →

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