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Linda Nagata Silver: Holding on to Human Identity

By John Folk-Williams

Linda Nagata Silver

Linda Nagata has always dramatized complex ideas about human identity, but her new novel, Silver, second in the Inverted Frontier series, pushes this exploration to a new level. She combines two story-worlds to achieve this. Edges, the first book in this new series, brought us back to the world of the Nanotech Succession universe, while […]

Filed Under: Indie SciFi, Reviews Tagged With: alien minds, identity, Inverted Frontier, Linda Nagata, memory

Olaf Stapledon’s Star Maker: Seeing the Whole of Things

By John Folk-Williams

Olaf Stapledon's Star Maker

Considering the convulsing world of 1937 on the eve of World War II, Olaf Stapledon introduced Star Maker with a powerful rationale for science fiction in a time of crisis: “…[P]erhaps the attempt to see our turbulent world against a background of stars may, after all, increase, not lessen, the significance of the present human […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: cosmic mind, galaxy, myth, Olaf Stapledon, sentient beings, Star Maker, telepathy, universe

Ursula K. Le Guin’s Always Coming Home: Dialogue Between Present and Future

By John Folk-Williams

Ursula K. LrGuin Always Coming Home

When Samuel R. Delany reviewed Ursula K. Le Guin’s Always Coming Home on its publication in 1985, he referred to science fiction as a dialogue between present and future. That happens to be a good way of thinking about this unique work. It is part imaginary ethnography and part literary anthology of a people, the […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Always Coming Hom, ceremonial life, culture, nature, power, story-telling, technology, Ursula K. Le Guin

Linda Nagata Edges: Contending Human and Alien Minds

By John Folk-Williams

Linda Nagata's Edges

“Against a starscape, a smudge of white light. A faint gleam, devoid of detail.” With those few words Linda Nagata begins Edges, picking up a story of human survival in a hostile universe she last explored over twenty years ago. Nagata published six science fiction novels between 1995 – 2003 but then took a long […]

Filed Under: Indie SciFi, Reviews Tagged With: alien minds, Inverted Frontier, Linda Nagata, Nanotech Succession, neural network, robotic spaceships, subminds

Doris Lessing: Shikasta

By John Folk-Williams

Doris Lessing: Shikasta

In an era when science fiction insists on “showing” rather than “telling”, Doris Lessing’s Canopus in Argos: Archives series challenges readers to think differently. In five books, starting with Shikasta in 1979, she produced an epic scale work more in the vein of Olaf Stapledon’s universal histories than current best-sellers, and no less dazzling and […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: apocalypse, colonialism, Doris Lessing, galactic empires, Shikasta, sufism

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