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Ringworld by Larry Niven – #VintageSciFiMonth

By John Folk-Williams

Ringworld by Larry Niven

If you’re new, as I am, to Larry Niven’s Known Space world, you’ll find an astonishing amount of information online about this hugely influential series of novels and short stories. Ringworld (1970) was Niven’s first novel in the sequence. There are articles about all the characters, alien species, technologies and events of Known Space as […]

Filed Under: Space Opera, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: agency, alien life forms, alien technology, city, fallen world, Known Space, Larry Niven, religion, spaceships

The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed – A Review

By John Folk-Williams

The Annual Migration of Clouds

Premee Mohamed’s beautiful novella (her third this year)The Annual Migration of Clouds, while set in a dystopian future, is more about a young woman saying goodby and leaving home, like birds leaving the nest, seasons turning, the movement of natural forces. It focuses on hard-won hope in the face of uncertainty rather than the devastating […]

Filed Under: Post-Apocalytic, Reviews Tagged With: agency, community, disease, dystopia, family, freedom, Premee Mohammed, symbionts

Six SFF Visions of Governing the Future

By John Folk-Williams

Infomocracy Governing the Future

There have been an abundance of SFF novels depicting dystopian conditions coming in the next century but relatively few that have offered a vision of governing the future. What would it be like to live amid the surviving or transformed structures of a different world? Would ordinary people have any say or freedom? Here are […]

Filed Under: Favorite SFF Tagged With: agency, Becky Chambers, Failed State, governing the future, H.G. Wells, Infomocracy, Malka Older, society, William Gibson

Agency by William Gibson: Acting in the Time of the Jackpot

By John Folk-Williams

Governing the future

William Gibson’s Agency, building on ideas, setting and characters in The Peripheral, is all about the individual’s capacity to act, or agency. Trouble is everyone in the story seems to lack it or at best remains mystified about whether or not they have any agency. So how do you tell a story in which the […]

Filed Under: Cyberpunk, Great Series Read Project, Post-Apocalytic Tagged With: agency, androids, artificial intelligence, time travel, William Gibson

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