#LeGuin

When I hear a CEO going on about “becoming an interplanetary species,” I consider that it’s 2021 and the entire continent of Antarctica still has a permanent population of zero,

With the conversation about the #deathpenalty in Singapore reaching a fever pitch, I feel a need to share what I believe is the most important work of sci-fi I've ever

Dr Sarah Shulist

Holy hell, where to start with this bingo victory in the category of “things senior anthropologists say”?https://twitter.com/donnalanclos/status/1279027639274156032 Well first, if you haven’t already, go read what an actual Indigenous

Stage 4 Lockdown Briar 🏳️‍🌈🔪

I'm tired of everyone constantly finding new evidence that JK is "really" proving herself awful "this time," and then saying things like "this fictional character wrote Harry Potter" or "Harry

I'm going to offer a thread of non-escapist science-fiction recommendations, many of them by writers of color. these are books that for one reason or another help me think about

Christopher Myers

1/ Oh, ffs. I am not going to give this person the satisfaction of being re-tweeted or quote-tweeted. But his take is so musty, so redolent of the white patriarchy,

an unofficial Hugo book club blog

Only 18 people have racked up at least 13 #HugoAwards nominations in the four primary fiction categories (novel, novella, novelette & short story). Robert Silverberg was the first, doing so

Okay, so I’m a thread account now. I’ll thread about something different than phil o’ phys. How about Joe Campbell? The Hero With 1000 Faces is about archetypes. It’s a

anyone else in quarantine starting to look how they looked when they were 14 smelly cat hair covered leggings, gigantic wool socks, weird long tshirt, a coat? inside? an actual

FeminEm (Emily C. A. Snyder) 💕

Thanks to @kingduncan42's suggestion, listening to @willarbery's interview re: #HeroesoftheFourthTurning on @KnowYrEnemyPodFor a variety of other reasons (aka Desperate For Anything Besides My Own Thoughts Pandemic Brain) I've c

Fake Theme Park

Now streaming on Park+! "Murph Gantly: The Man, The Myth, The Madness, The Mistresses."Part 1: A Creative ChildMurph shows his support for the underdog at a young age, joining neighborhood

We are living in the cop-regime.

Re the strain of nerd anti-intellectualism where people say they just want consumable good versus evil plots - I actually think this is a case where people misunderstand what it

Inspired by the quoted conversation with @vogelbeere and the photograph of "Le Guin's desk" that is going around, I am sharing an archival photograph of Ursula K. Le Guin at

What's some writing advice you've received that you'd share?Neil Gaiman has a simple point about conflict: having 2 characters who want opposing things = a story. My high-school English teacher

A megatrend hypothesis inspired by several microtrend that I think are related: a) waldenpondingb) rise of heavy duty information management methods like @fortelabs BASB (build a second brain)c) conversational media

Dogs don't have thumbs

One like, one SF novel recommendation.https://twitter.com/RKdULTRA/status/1331275538074394625 2/Orphans of the Sky, by Heinlein. One of the original generation ship stories. 3/Hull Zero Three, by Greg Bear. A very very different take