Sarah Gailey's The Echo Wife, is also on sale on Audible.
It's a powerful book about cloning, abusive relationships, free will, chauvinism, humanity and inhumanity. With an unsympathetic viewpoint character as part if it's charm.
TODAY! At the INSTANT FUTURE science and futuristics speculation website, my INTERVIEW WITH RUDY RUCKER. And it is mindblowing! Rudy is one of cyberpunk's founders! And a brilliant mathematical scientist, teacher, and visionary. His ideas have been borrowed by Microsoft, by other sf novelists, by videogames, and yet there are always more!
Instant Future is always free!
Among photos of the Met Gala, this from 2022 caught my eye. Lizzo wore a Thom Browne coat adorned with 1200 worker-hours of embroidery, 22,000 hours to make it total. Skilled needle-worker hours.
Epic fantasy and other writers please note this aspect of historical elites' clothes/furnishings. This is visible display of wealth's ability to command other people's time in a world without today's brand name status symbols.
Shabaka Hutchings had at least 3 projects going for most of the last decade: Caribbean fusion quartet Kemet (previous post), the spiritual #jazz Shabaka and the Ancestors out of #SouthAfrica, and Comet Is Coming, an intense apocalyptic sci-fi #SFF dance/electronic/jazz fusion trio. This link should take you to a Comet live set in the middle of a long (and outdated but still good) Shabaka playlist that also has the Ancestors and such on it. #music
Highest recommendation for this interview I boosted earlier. Anyone interested in the myriad current clusterfucks around technology, science and culture should read it, or really just anyone who is intellectually curious about the state of the world and our future.
Folks like @cstross and @JohnShirley2023 are why science fiction is important and always relevant - people who can look down the road and beneath the surface of things #SFF
AN INTERVIEW WITH CHARLES STROSS, Hugo and Locus and Prometheus Award winning author and science-fiction visionary. We grill him about the future of our world! His perspective is very distinctive indeed. Don't miss out.
#Introduction for my #Calckey account. See also @jules where I've been on #Mastodon for a few months and @jules@bookwyrm.social (weirdly they allow a . in the username despite it screwing up the tagging function) :bunhdthink:
I'm here for shiny new objects and slowly getting more into #Fedi stuff, obvs. Not a techy but with a layperson's interest in using new media, including socials. Also here for cuteness and fluffy stuff. Lots of time to watch #TV and #movies and read #novels (esp #SFF) because I'm sick with #longCOVID (#fatigue#PEM#BrainFog). 😷
Unlike many of you, I'm old! In my 50s, grew up with rotary phones and big chonky televisions, got cable when I was in highschool, email and dial-up internet in grad school. #Punk, #rock, #reggae, #soul, #r&b, those are my thing in music. I'm from the US but lived in Japan, Germany, and now Norway, so not all that American in some ways (still very much so in other ways). 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🇩🇪 🇳🇴
In the unlikely event you or an interested friend are in the Salem, Oregon area AND would care to celebrate Walpurgis Night tomorrow with a band of horror, weird-tale, weird-poets ...weird rockers even...It'll be in the form of a gathering and reading and greeting here at the Book Bin in Salem at 5...with award winning weird poet Adam Bolivar, and a Bram Stoker Winning writer...oh wait that's me...and a heavy metal drummer who's also a writer...and others... #horror#sff#fantasy
For anyone interested, I also have a #substack where I just kind of trust that my disparate interests in #religion#sff#philosophy and #ttrpg s will come together into something special and coherent despite my children's best efforts at leaving me a gibbering mouther. If you're inclined I'd love for you to follow along!
I post something like twice a month. Hopefully more often when the infant starts sleeping through the night.