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in Week 51 of 2024. "Legal Rites" is the best story this week, and the first three in the __Colony__ hexalogy are solid and fast-paced. Alas, the __Resort__ trilogy collapsed in its final volume.

●●●○○ Battle of the Unborn - James Blish (ss) 1950¹
The Mutation Control Board met in Nagasaki. They'd found disparate minor changes in the areas children over the years, but now a major change had been discovered, and it looked like this variety was killing other types. What was their ultimate goal?

●●●●○ Quant - Richard F Weyand {Colony 1} (nov) 2021
Two men start a project to see if they can get all of humankind's eggs out of one basket. One develops a powerful AI to help, and she discovers interstellar teleportation. Through thousands of avatars, she bends Earth's economy to accomplish her goal: founding …

[Book reviews] , and fiction for imagining brighter futures

Novels with political under- and over-tones that have captivated me recently

by Katy Nightingale, Nov 28, 2024

"All of the books I’m including here are unique in their styles - some encompassing all of these visionary genres, and some just a few of them. Here’s a little glossary I came up with:

- futurist 🔮 - taking place in the future

- utopian 🌈 - taking place in an idealistic society where everything is designed to be harmonious, just, and fulfilling for all people

- solarpunk ☀️ - a sub-genre of utopian literature, solarpunk fiction takes place in a sustainable, eco-friendly future where humanity lives harmoniously with nature, often featuring renewable energy, green cities, and with a focus on social equity

- anti-capitalist 🌹 - the characters and plot tell a story that illustrates the …

@Ratchman Today I stumbled across *The Void*, an amazing online project of prose and some contributed illustrations, clearly shooting for the television market. To be clear, there is a lot to read here: three seasons of 15 episodes each so far, the first episode, presumably typical, being some 37,000 words. I should think £0.50p per episode is very good value for money.

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