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Monthly Archives: July 2018
Uncanny Valley Digest: Liu Cixin’s The Poetry Cloud
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 →
Posted in Authors and Writing, Ben Loory, Book Reviews, Books, Poetry, Science and Nature, Science Fiction, Short Stories, summer reading, uncanny valley
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Tagged book review, creativity, david gill, nowell valeri, sci fi authors, Science and Nature, science fiction, science fiction writers, shelldive, suhail rafidi, summer reading, technology, uncanny valley
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Uncanny Valley Digest: Geoffrey Maloney’s Remnants of the Virago Crypto-System
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 →
Uncanny Valley Digest: Burning Sky by Rachel Pollack
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 →
Posted in Authors and Writing, Philosophy, Short Stories, Sociey and Culture, summer reading, uncanny valley
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Tagged contemporary literature, david gill, literature, mass culture, Rachel Pollack, science fiction, science fiction writers, shelldive, suhail rafidi, summer reading, uncanny valley
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