These and others recognize the dilemmas we utopian writers of sci-fi and speculative fiction face: “The necessity for works of fiction to be dramatic and the fact that workable plots require conflict inhibit the use of sf to display utopian schemes.” I face this problem in my currentseries....
I enjoyed it. As I have already admitted, a lot of it eluded my grasp. I suspect that part of this is because I don't understand Japanese culture or I fail to understand other things expressed in these poems. I strongly suspect that part of my failure to engulf the meaning of this b...
Ardi reached over with her trunk and tore off a strip of bark. She chewed it slowly, relishing the sharp flavour. Ardi and Selam lumbered towards the Lithium Building, joining the stream of mrithi. The stream thickened into a river, and filled the air with the mixed grumble of a studen...
Death followed from asphyxia, acute congestive heart failure, and cardiac arrest (the cessation of electrical activity in the heart). Though once an object of horror, now the image of the Cross is sacred and holy to us, and is the symbol of the Christian. If you have this in mind you ...
It all works on what basically works out to be the soviet corporate structure where no amount of failing companies, business models, or practices have any accountability until there is enough corruption and failure loading the entire system down to collapse the entire state propping it up. At ...
political readings of Genesis, like Carr’s, this failure of explicit recognition of the dreams by Jacob in the brothers is not directly addressed. Carr writes, “Within the context of this ongoing, irresistible rise of Joseph, the brothers’ defiance of his dreams looks foolish…” (1996: ...
Frankenstein, Mary Shelly's seminal work, and before, most speculative fiction media has taken the standpoint that to enhance or to explore the creation of intelligences, in this way, is doomed to failure, thus recapitulating the myths of Daedalus and of Prometheus and of Lucifer, again and ...
Frankenstein, Mary Shelly's seminal work, and before, most speculative fiction media has taken the standpoint that to enhance or to explore the creation of intelligences, in this way, is doomed to failure, thus recapitulating the myths of Daedalus and of Prometheus and of Lucifer, again and ...