Mistaken assumptions – Victorian literature – house party mysteries – fictional detectives – the timelessness of history – the unreliability of perception – love at first sight – the nature of cats – this conversation has happened before – this conversation will certainly happen again – the indomitable will of a woman on a mission – Ned really needs a vacation. First and foremost, To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis is a fun read. It is a smart, comedic, time-traveling Sci-fi novel […]
He quotes Tenacious D in the epigraph. That should tell you everything you need to know.
Don’t get me wrong. I like Tenacious D. Their self-titled first album was practically the soundtrack to my first year of college (much to the regret of my roommate). If you called “Tribute” the greatest song in the world without irony in your voice, I wouldn’t punch you in the face. I once ate at Zanzibar in Las Vegas solely for the purpose of eating there while thinking of this song (link NSFW . . . trust me, don’t do it). My point is: hating […]
“Luck—that was what a man needed to thrive in this universe. It changed the scale. A star couldn’t have good luck—a planet couldn’t. That took something alive and conscious, something like a man.” While exploring the galactic core, the Enterprise finds a lost Federation shuttle with a crazy person inside. He seems to be a major plot point, but we will soon forget about him completely. The Enterprise is then steered by an unknown force to a Dyson sphere and taken inside it. There are […]
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Mieville Gets Weird(er) – On God-Squids and Paranoia
Kraken is the first China Mieville book I’ve read aside from his celebrated Bas-Lag books: Perdido Street Station, The Scar, and Iron Council. And while no one would ever doubt the fecundity of his imagination, his plotting has always left a bit to be desired. My overwhelming impression after finishing Perdido Street Station, in fact, was that I would kill to be able to play a Bas-Lag MMO (well, that, and a desire to find out where Mieville buys his drugs). But of course, there’s […]