Writing about writing and reading
I finished this dystopian classic by Margaret Atwood and was both impressed and frustrated. I was impressed by how believable the story was. In the afterward the author talks about how she took great care to put nothing in the book that hadn't already happened somewhere in history, and no technology that didn't exist. She …
Continue reading "The Handmaid’s Tale: a negative side of human adaptability"
Oh, sorry, Nosedive is actually the title of the black mirror episode the writers were copying inspired by. On this week's episode of The Orville, the crew goes to a planet which, through paralell evolution, is somehow exactly like 21st century Earth, except a bit different. Okay... that is a bit silly... well, a LOT …
I don't feel fine, though. Is this why old people are so bitter? I'm not even 40 yet, what is going on! I'm writing rambling, angry posts about the world instead of about writing... Our freedom, health, and human dignity is being attacked on all sides by the grossly rich and powerful. And now, in the …
I just finished this post apocalyptic sci fi classic, which takes the form of a few stories over the course of nearly two thousand years. Centuries after nuclear war, society rebuilds itself, regrowing from barbarism, and finding scraps of its ancient past. The story starts with a monk of the order of Leibowitz finding a …
Continue reading "A Canticle for Leibowitz: the forgetfulness of humanity"
Jonas David 