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Fables of Need: this census-taker by China Miéville and The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati

I’m not sure what leads me to link these two books, as different and far apart in time as they are, but China Miéville’s this census-taker (2016)and Dino Buzzati’s The Tartar Steppe (1938) strike me as fables of human need. I’m not even sure what I mean by that, except that each book tells a […]

The Art of Unseeing in China Mieville’s The City & The City

By John Folk-Williams

The City & the City by China Miéville takes the form of a murder mystery amplified by Miéville’s unique ability to find richly suggestive fantasy metaphors about our world. This one is about the art of unseeing or seeing only what you are permitted to recognize in the midst of the doppelgänger cities of Besźel […]

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Remarkable essay - not sure I buy all the symmetries but this is full of interesting information about Poe's novel: Still Farther South: Poe and Pym’s Suggestive Symmetries
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/still-farther-south

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The latest in an incredible series of posts: Writing An Autistic Society, by @xasymptote https://adahoffmann.substack.com/p/writing-an-autistic-society

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Hard to imagine what might happen if this drought keeps up. The complications of water rights and statutes make changing use very hard unless there's some kind of water seizure from on high, which could set off a violent response. Is it possible to negotiate a way through this?

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We can really no longer look at the past and say: The amount of water we've had in the last 100 years is what we can expect in the future. That is no longer true because of climate change.
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/09/1003424717/the-drought-in-the-western-u-s-is-getting-bad-climate-change-is-making-it-worse

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Reading "It explores what it means to truly reach another being and not lose yourself in the process." nerds of a feather, flock together: Microreview [book]: Shards of Earth by Adrian Tcha... http://www.nerds-feather.com/2021/06/microreview-book-shards-of-earth-by.html?spref=tw

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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/the-falcon-and-the-winter-soldier/ via @strangehorizons

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