When you talk about people you make them important. I want to think more about who I choose to make important.
Even if you are criticizing someone, burying their bad ideas with logic and all the knives of science you're still making them and their ideas important.
You can expect me to talk about Iain M. Banks more and the questions I have about his work.
It's why it's probably is a good idea to do a critical review of Newitz and their "Terraformers" which I also have questions about.
@futurebird Ooh, OK. My starter. I think Iain M. Banks wrote slightly better books as Iain Banks, than Iain M. Banks. Controversial I know.
He wrote my favourite opening line of a book ever.
"It was the day my grandmother exploded"
Terraformers has a bit of the fever-dream about it.
Though, I just got to the bit about the dairy farm and I think Newitz has a sense of humor that is often lost on too many of their readers who either take it all seriously and think it's so cool... or so awful.
But the idea of a sentient cow having to be patient with a person who is fretting and feeling bad that the cow saw a dairy farm is objectively funny.
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