fiction review
“The Gambler,” Paolo Bacigalupi
from Fast Forward 2 (2008) Few things are more dated than recent science fiction. This decade-old Paolo Bacigalupi piece – with its bloggers and media integrity and Gawker-rules-the-webwaves assumptions – reads just as ancient as any golden age rocket-ship-to-Mars story. A shame, though, for it works a strange magic nonetheless, its narrative dense and compelling—qualitiesContinue reading ““The Gambler,” Paolo Bacigalupi”
“Carthago Delenda Est,” by Genevieve Valentine
from Federations (2009) So, here’s another insufferably ponderous post. Whatever, it’s about a thought that I realize has been indirectly coloring a lot of my responses thus far – both to the material itself, as well as to criticism of it – so I might as well attempt to work it out more directly. IContinue reading ““Carthago Delenda Est,” by Genevieve Valentine”
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