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.

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]].

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