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Countdown city (2013, Quirk Books)
Set three months before a deadly asteroid is due to hit Earth, this Last Policeman sequel chronicles the further adventures …
The Last Policeman is a 2012 American science fiction mystery novel by Ben H. Winters. It follows a police detective …
The Last Policeman is a 2012 American science fiction mystery novel by Ben H. Winters. …
The Last Policeman is a 2012 American science fiction mystery novel by Ben H. Winters. It follows a police detective …
Borders are not just meaningless geographical lines. They have an impact on all of our …
Borders are not just meaningless geographical lines. They have an impact on all of our lives, whether it’s the fallout …
HOMO BRITANNICUS tells the epic history of life in Britain, from man's very first footsteps to the present day. Drawing …
Finding out who you were in a previous life sounds like fun until you’re forced …
My first foray into solarpunk. Interesting to read not long after reading LeGuin's The Dispossessed, the classic 'ambiguous utopia'. And in both novels, the supposedly-non-hierarchical social system is marred by implicit power structures, and the proportedly-autonomous communities do have some dependency on non-utopian other worlds. I found Another Life very readable and enjoyable--a real page-turner--and although I wasn't convinced by a lot of the imagined technological solutions to (carbon capture is a distraction and continuation of business-as-usual rather than a way forward, and artificial lakes in Californian deserts don't have great ecological precedent...) the exploration of power in social movements was really interesting for me. I felt that Ulibarri was using birth/reincarnation as a conceit for talking about the flipside of charismatic and competent indivudals' exalted position in so-called leaderless movements. As someone who has held roles of responsibility in non-hierarchical grassroots groups, I really appreciated the treatment of Galacia's …
My first foray into solarpunk. Interesting to read not long after reading LeGuin's The Dispossessed, the classic 'ambiguous utopia'. And in both novels, the supposedly-non-hierarchical social system is marred by implicit power structures, and the proportedly-autonomous communities do have some dependency on non-utopian other worlds. I found Another Life very readable and enjoyable--a real page-turner--and although I wasn't convinced by a lot of the imagined technological solutions to (carbon capture is a distraction and continuation of business-as-usual rather than a way forward, and artificial lakes in Californian deserts don't have great ecological precedent...) the exploration of power in social movements was really interesting for me. I felt that Ulibarri was using birth/reincarnation as a conceit for talking about the flipside of charismatic and competent indivudals' exalted position in so-called leaderless movements. As someone who has held roles of responsibility in non-hierarchical grassroots groups, I really appreciated the treatment of Galacia's ambivalence towards her role: both pride and burden.
Finding out who you were in a previous life sounds like fun until you’re forced to grapple with the darkness …
Finding out who you were in a previous life sounds like fun until you’re forced to grapple with the darkness …
