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Communicating Feelings in Samuel R. Delany’s Babel-17

By John Folk-Williams

Communicating feelings in Babel-17

I’ve never felt so close to a brilliant mind playing with the possibilities of language and the difficulty of communicating feelings as I have when reading Samuel R. Delany’s Babel-17. Of course, this SFF adventure from the early 1960s is all about language, the mysterious one named in its title. It’s up to Rydra Wong, […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: communication, feelings, language, poet, Samel R. Delany, spaceships

Pushing the Boundaries of Mind: Science Books for SFF Readers – 3

By John Folk-Williams

Neuroscience - boundaries of mind

One of the reasons I’m drawn to science fiction is to see how writers explore boundaries of mind and consciousness. I mean not just the sort of psychic powers that were popular to write about 40 or 50 years ago (or superheroes today) but testing the limits of human consciousness. While sff fiction uses standard […]

Filed Under: Science Books for SFF Readers Tagged With: artificial intelligence, brain, consciousness, memory, mind, neuroscience, psychedelics, science fiction movies

A Diné Antihero in the Sixth World Series by Rebecca Roanhorse

By John Folk-Williams

Diné Sixth World of Rebecca Roanhorse Storm of Locusts

Rebecca Roanhorse’s two book series, The Sixth World, is at once a brilliant evocation of the Diné homeland and a strong character study of a young woman who feels stranded between the worlds of human and immortal. She is an antihero at once reveling in and resisting her supernatural powers. Trail of Lightning and Storm […]

Filed Under: Great Series Read Project, Reviews Tagged With: apocalypse, Diné, gods, human, immortal, indigenous culture

The Dystopian Lawyer Series by Christopher Brown

By John Folk-Williams

Failed State Dystopian Lawyer Book 2

Christopher Brown’s two-book set (Rule of Capture and Failed State) about his hapless yet strangely effective dystopian lawyer, Donnie Kimoe, may come too close to our dystopian present for comfort, but they also shine with ideas about a better way to envision the future. As he put it in a recent essay in Literary Hub: […]

Filed Under: Great Series Read Project, Reviews Tagged With: Christopher Brown, dystopia, dystopian lawyer, hopeful future, law, power, ruined earth

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Something is struggling to be born in this damaged and inspiring world, and I believe science fiction and its speculative cousins are helping us figure out what it is. It’s pushing the imaginations of fiction writers to bend and twist familiar forms to try to capture the forces that are hurling us into a barely conceivable future. This blog is my small way of exploring the half-perceived … Read More about About

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