Writing about writing and reading
The first sci-fi I've read in a couple years, and I picked nothing but the best of the genre. Liu is an endless fountain of ideas, and although I was tricked into thinking this was a novel by the way they marketed the version I bought, I was not disappointed, and was constantly surprised and …
A friend linked me this article about the squeamish hesitance of writers to call their books sci-fi, and the reputation sci-fi has for being cheap or base entertainment. Some of this rings true for me, too, even as a (ex?) sci-fi fan and writer myself. Their example of Faber is accurate. I remember when I …
I've written a lot of short stories, and done nothing with most of them. The few I've tried to do something with have been eternally rejected. Those that I've posted on other sites have had minimal views because I'm terrible at marketing. Well... one thing I haven't done much of, is posting fiction here. Why? …
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"
What did I just read? I'm not quite sure. At the end it became slightly intelligible that the POV character was of some higher or lower form of consciousness, and had a brain procedure performed on him. So that sheds a bit of light on the bizarre and confusing way this story was told. One …
Jonas David 