Showing posts with label David Brin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Brin. Show all posts

Monday, June 1, 2020

I Love Word Lists - Part 1

[Here there be links galore!]

Reading Butler, my own scifi will have my own humans and other species 'uplift' themselves, Brin-style, in order to survive and thrive through and beyond the rigors of space, time, cyberspace, and hyperspace...

My humans will have to use both natural (bio/chemical) and artificial means to change their bodies.

Just like my Aturans had to inject, digest, aerosol, and applying topically variations of medicines, antihistamines, accelerants, depressants, astringents, supplements, vitamins, and hormonal in order to survive on our world, we humans as a species will have to learn to do the same.

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Another LIBBOO Book! TRY IT OUT

"Project Looking Glass" is a thrill ride: Private I in a future where the animals have been "uplifted" (think David Brin's series "The Uplift Wars" meets Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep").

I already wrote a review about the book on Libboo!

Mr. Mark Anthony Tierno's story reminds me of Cordwainer Smith, who wrote plenty of  "uplifted" species in his short fiction.
Haven't read too many of the contemporary speculative fiction authors doing this. Good to look out for future titles!

FB is BS

Facebook has so many aspects wrong with it and I have loathed it since the beginning. Someone said we need to dismantle patriarchy but not g...