A little #speculative_fiction because I think many of us are looking for a compelling vision of the future.

The Gifting
https://medium.com/@karaml/the-gifting-7531fd088b1a

The Gifting - Kara Lindstrom - Medium

In 2034, my youngest niece was learning about The Great Transition era, roughly 2001 to 2026. She could wrap her head around the fear-based response to 9/11, and the COVID-19 pandemic (when her…

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I just ran across this review at Galatea Resurrects by Tom Hibbard (old colleague, now passed on): http://galatearesurrects2017.blogspot.com/2017/06/back-to-garden-by-clare-hume.html. This was about my first book in the Wild Mountain duology, Back to the Garden. #ecofiction, #climate, #literary, #speculative_fiction That being said, I'm building a store at dragonflypub.ca as I move away from Amazon. You can buy the ebook directly from the site.
BACK TO THE GARDEN by CLARE HUME

TOM HIBBARD Reviews Back to the Garden by Clara Hume (Moon Willow Press, 2015) ECO-FICTION THE INVISIBLE PARADISE: BAC...

The owners have physically divided themselves on opposite sides of the coffee kiosk. When this reporter asked the manager about the situation, his reply was, “All robot vacuums great and small are welcome here, we don’t discriminate.” This was said without irony as he stood in front of the bathroom doors that read “Genetic Females Only.”

#Nearfuture
#speculative_fiction
#robotvacuum
#scifi
#sciencefiction
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@Inknosed @litsubmissions I'm trying to convince people to use #writtensf more. The #scifi tag is 99% comics, art, TV, and movies. #speculative_fiction has been observed in the wild.
Re: That ᴍachinic ᴍnemotechnical ᴀrchive (the #other ᴍᴍᴀ) accessed around-the-world by way of of one’s #double/#doppel/#dvija (#dwija) [[which is not a “spiritual” double but rather—as a sub-atomic physicist might say—that of a divided individual (the dvija [द्विजा] as ‘dividua’): https://twitter.com/youtopos/status/1341478244923654146 ]]… …via #Saint_̶Yves 1886 [1949,36]: Agartᵗha est «#un_échiquier_colossal s’étendant…à-travers presque toutes les regions du Globe» [1949,37] et «rassemble tout-entier dans sa totale connaissance…le catalogue sacré de #cette_bibliothèque_planétaire#cette_mémoire_intégrale de l’Humanité». #Saint_̶Yves 1886 [1949,50]: Ses chemins sont «des chemins électriques, non de fer»…chemins «de verre trempé et malléable…sillonné» avec silicium (silicon). #Saint_̶Yves 1886 [1949,58]: Comme le démarrage d’un ordinateur, «la métropole cyclopéenne [d’Agartᵗha], éclairée d’en bas par un océan fluidique,…reflet [un] feu central»: le cœur et la chaleur ardente de son ordinateur/coordinateur synarchique, sa cathédrale colossale. Tous les minéraux confondus réalisent ce que la fantaisie et la chimère des artistes gothiques, corinthiens, ioniens, doriens, n’auraient jamais osé rêver. Et partout, furieux de se voir pénétré et envahi par des hommes, un people [avatarien] à forme humaine, au corps igné»/éthéré. …They (these ethereal Agents qua Avatars of Agartᵗha) are dæmonstrably ‘dæmons’, then, in the NealStephenson/BlackSun sense. “A ‘dæmon’ is…an old piece of jargon from the UNIX operating system, where it referred to…a fundamental part of the operating system. In The Black Sun,…a dæmon is like an avatar, but it does not represent a human being. It is a robot that lives in the metaverse [i.e. the program universe]”. …“To read Saint-Yves is to read an amazing work of #Speculative_Fiction…indeed what one could call a classic/1ˢᵗ-class work of #Science_Fiction wherein the definitive scientific/technical item—the one upon which its world turns, or turns-out to be different from ours, if only temporarily (that is, in and for its time-period)—is what in our own time-period we have called the World-Wide-Web (which in Saint-Yves’s SF has a placeholder in the ‘Paradésa’ of #Agartᵗha: his word for the Virtual world which in his text is ‘Actual’).” …#Saint_̶Yves 1886 [1949,94]: «Quand l’initié…lie son âme…il est conduit dans des caveaux où on lui montre sa statue [éthérée]». …The I-I (the Internet-Initiate) in Saint-Yves’s sense is not the #individual as such but—following our S-F version & vision of S-Y—a #dividual qua Sanskrit #dvija (द्विजा)……#Saint_̶Yves 1888 [1949,33]: «millions de dwijas, द्विजा: deux-fois-nés…forme le grand cercle/hémicycle [de+dans l’Agartᵗha]»…Ces «millions de #dwijas, #द्विजा: deux-fois-nés, [ces millions] de #yoghis, #योगि” unis [via l’éthéré/éthéréalité]…forme le grand cercle/hémicycle») [ibid] [[…ᵧour ‘double’, then—ᵧour ‘doubles’ or ‘doppels’—is & are ᵧour online embodiment (‘dvijas’, ‘avatars’):…ᵧour yoked databody-qua-bodies]]. [[Reposted here from an old tweet: https://twitter.com/youtopos/status/922962930437644295]] [[#dvijas, the #dividual; #in_̶dvijas, #in_̶dvija_̶ation]].
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“That ᴍachinic ᴍnemotechnical ᴀrchive (the #other ᴍᴍᴀ) accessed around the world by way of of one’s double/doppel/dvija (dwija), which is not a “spiritual” double but rather —as a sub-atomic physicist might say— that of a divided ndividual (the dvija [द्विजा] as ‘dividua’).”

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Margaret Atwood: Feminism and Fiction
(2007) : Tolan, Fiona
isbn: 978-90-420-2223-2
#feminism #fiction #handmaids_tale #margaret_atwood #speculative_fiction
#my_bibtex

Hello Mastodon! Thought it was about time I did an #introduction post.

I'm Philippa, a freelance #editor and proofreader for outdoors literature and #speculative_fiction. I live in Snowdonia, and if I'm not working or reading, I'm generally outdoors - either in the sea, or #climbing or running or skiing in the mountains.

Looking forward to getting involved with the #writingcommunity on here!

If you're a British Science Fiction Association member and you liked one of my stories published this year, you can nominate it for the BSFA Awards long list via the link below 🛸

A list of my recent publications: https://rachelhandleywriting.wordpress.com/short-stories-2/

Nomination form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeukjVj_SdFQFMAagPhMMqf4Km-ZZavv_B9ItUXCG_wcm4_Ew/viewform?usp=send_form

#writingcommmunity #writing #short-story #Fiction #scifi #sff #bookstodon #speculative_fiction #bsfa #writer

Short Stories

Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
(2011) : Murakami, Haruki
isbn: 4-7700-1544-5
#fiction #science_fiction #speculative_fiction #surrealism
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Politics of Planetary Reproduction and the Children of Other Worlds
(2019) : Oman-Reagan, Michael P.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2019.02.015
#GAIA #NASA #anthropology #colonization #ecology #sci_fi #settlement #space #speculative_fiction #
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