Monthly Archives: July 2018

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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Uncanny Valley Digest: Geoffrey Maloney’s Remnants of the Virago Crypto-System

Posted on 30 July 2018 by Suhail Rafidi

Our Geoffrey Maloney discussion was the sweep second hand on a millennial calendar! Tiny details are the greatest reveals of the society that used to exist before the one in which we find our protagonist. Alien colonizers have long left … Continue reading →

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Uncanny Valley Digest: Burning Sky by Rachel Pollack

Posted on 24 July 2018 by Suhail Rafidi

Monday night’s Burning Sky discussion left no question answered! This is my favorite story of the summer so far. It grapples with potent, ambiguous questions about the inevitability of violence and grievance as a justification for force. It’s also a … Continue reading →

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