Homeowner
In case you were wondering what the recent dearth of posts was down to. Of course, now that mere trivialities such as ownership and mortgages have been dealt with, it's time to scale the peaks of renovating, decorating, moving...
Recent Reading: In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
When Paul Lynch won the Booker last year for Prophet Song , a near-future dystopia in which Ireland falls under the sway of a fascist government, there was the predictable hoopla over whether the book could, or should, be read as science fiction. But it seems to me that the SF community missed a trick several months earlier, when it failed to herald the longlisting of Martin MacInnes's In Ascension for the same award. Not only is In Ascension undeniably science fiction, featuring such core tropes as interstellar space travel, new star drives, and contact with aliens; it also seems very much in conversation with some key genre works which deal with these very topics, most obviously Carl Sagan's Contact and the movie adapted from it. As in that story, the novel is told from the point of view of a young, female scientist who ends up at the center of a global effort to respond to indisputable evidence of the existence of alien intelligence. But whereas Contact used that premise...
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Rich Horton
My job first thing tomorrow is to bring a locksmith to replace the locks -- they are old and need repairing in any case.
Having moved an apartment myself in the past two weeks, I know what a pain it can be. Eagerly awaiting new posts once you have the time for them :-)
-Raz Greenberg
Raz, you mentioned your upcoming move last time we met - glad it's (mostly?) over. Right now, I'm in pre-move mode, and so less busy (though I am that) than preoccupied, all my mental real estate taken up with plans and lists. If you woke me up in the middle of the night I'd probably start obsessing about how to set up the living room - of course, I already know where the bookcases should go.
Congratulations on the new home, Abigail!
abigail, you should really try the movie CHRONICLE which is about a bunch of kids who acquire superpower and is filmed in a found-footage format. i'd be really curious about your thoughts on it.
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