"It is so hard to imagine anything fundamentally different from what we have now. But without these alternate visions, we get stuck on dead center. And we’d better get ready. We need to know where we’d like to go."
#ErnestCallenbach, 2008
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/fashion/14ecotopia.html
Magister Ludi
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Magister Ludi: The Glass Bead Game [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm (A Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisation, with Derek Jacobi), Publisher, Local Library] by Hermann Hesse The Glass Bead Game (the title Magister Ludi was an imposition of the first English translation) was Hesse’s final novel, separated from his penultimate one Journey to the East by over a decade. […]
Hi fellow book nerds! I'm trying to put together a Utopian Book Club (focused on novels and novellas). I want to include LeGuin's The Dispossessed and @pluralistic 's Walkaway, but from there I've got an endless list of mostly white dudes.
What cool utopian fiction by BIPOC writers have I missed out on?
#BookWorm #books #utopia #BIPOCLit #literature #UtopianFiction #utopian #solarpunk #novels #novella #BIPOCwriters #fiction #ImagineUtopia #eutopia #SpeculativeFiction #scifi #fantasy #BookWyrm
“That’s it?“ I asked coming out of the local anesthesia.
“You were under for three weeks.” The smile grew on the doctor’s artificial face, “But to answer your question? Yes. Your upgrades are complete.“
“Awesome. I can't wait to go outside!”
“Let’s start with a window.“ He opened the blackout drapes. “You will need to work up to full sun. Your new system needs time to adjust to the power it can realistically absorb outside”
#microfiction #hopePunk #solarPunk #utopianFiction #amWriting
When the Great Sickness came the oligarchs' greed was laid bare. Crushed beyond bending, the people rose up, in large and small ways, tore it all down. Planted trees on the graves of what was. Planted trees everywhere, really. Solar panels, balcony gardens, and backyard chickens too. The means of survival returned to the hands of the people.
...and that's why we say fuckThePatriarchy before each meal. Now eat your veg.
Aw Dad!
My #cozy #lesbian #spaceopera Finding Refuge is featured this week (January 30 – February 3, 2023) in the I Heart SapphFic Reading Challenge, Week 4: Spaceship / Space Station! https://iheartsapphfic.com/2023/01/30/sapphic-books-reading-challenge-week-4-butch-femme-or-space/
I'll be visiting the I Heart SapphFic Reader Group on Facebook on and off all week, and will be giving away a free ebook copy. https://www.facebook.com/groups/iheartlesfic
#sapphicbooks #sapphic #romance #glbtqia
#speculativefiction #specfic #utopianfiction #romancingsff
7 books to get to know me (fiction) — or more specifically, the top 7 influences on the #scifi I've started writing!
— Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
— The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
— Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
— Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
— Dune by Frank Herbert
— The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
— Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
#7Books #books #fiction #sciencefiction #speculativefiction #writing #writer #utopia #utopianfiction
Saibal Ray
Jarrett
Strypey
John Griogair Bell
Kostyn
Robert T Gasperson
Valerie Roney
Victoria Janssen
Graham
Kimberley