Author Archives: bmooremc
Construct and the Clone
Nancy Farmer’s straightforward writing style has me constantly comparing Matt to Akin, from Lilith’s Brood. Both characters are products of genetic engineering. The Oankali incorporate foreign species into their genetic make-up, while Matt develops in a cow; this might not … Continue reading → Continue reading
Rewriting Blindsight
CRUNCHER PEELED AWAY the silvery leaded skin from collar to toe. Then he carefully handed Mom’s face to Sascha. It was like passing a chemlight; he receded into the darkness, where he navigated more through knowing- through kenning- than he … Continue reading → Continue reading
Evocation: Rottendo Citricus!
We would bleed from our eyes and mouths and assholes, and if any God was merciful we would die before splitting open like rotten fruit. (Blindsight 173) The above line isn’t the most important in the story, but it was … Continue reading → Continue reading
Comment on Dear Akin please grow up to be a human looking alien hybrid, love mo by bmooremc
Two things really stood out to me about this.
1. You don’t have any paragraph breaks. It makes it harder for me to read, which I think is good, because it has a more stream-of-consciousness approach that really puts a human feel on Lilith’s experience. Interesting approach.
2. At the end you have her talking about the Oankali failing to account for a human sense of identity. Until I read your blog, I’d only thought about the Human Contradiction (intelligence in service to hierarchical behavior) as being correct or incorrect; I hadn’t entertained the idea that it might just be reverse (hierarchical behavior responding to the intellectualized sense of identity).
Cool stuff. Made me think. Thanks. 🙂 Continue reading
Salvager Diary Entry – warning, foul language
I’m done putting dates on these things. Another dig-day, found nothing. (Words have changed. “Nothing” used to mean “Nothing important.” Now it just means nothing. Everything’s important. Hell, I’m not even Christian, and even I get excited by those holographic … Continue reading → Continue reading
Cancerous Orange sounds like a band name
What is the single most alien aspect of the world into which Lilith is thrust? Reading mindfully of this question made one scene stand out more than any other. On pp 67-69, Lilith buries some orange peels in Tiej instead … Continue reading → Continue reading
Blog gud?
Well, it’s 11pm. The Fenwick Library computers have gone all HAL on me and don’t want me to open blackboard or load the comic in comiXology. And my phone’s about to die. So much for citing specific pages in the … Continue reading → Continue reading
Comment on Web Redemption by bmooremc
Nice to know I’m not the only one going back and saying, “Wait, what?” Thanks!
It is a really young Julia Stiles. It’s from the TV series “Ghostwriter,” about a group of kids that make friends with a ghost. The ghost can only communicate with them by reading written things and rearranging the letters to make his own messages. Together, Ghostwriter and the kids solve various crimes that seemed, when I was younger, to be a lot more impressive than they are now. Still, it was one of my earliest influences- they all had black and white composition notebooks they called “casebooks,” and even today, those composition books are semi-sacred to me. Continue reading
Another Frankenstein Thing
Remember when we discussed Shelley’s claims regarding the genesis of the Frankenstein novel? A friend sent me this link.
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Web Redemption
I was going to finish my series with thoughts about the language of Neuromancer and Cyberpunk. The preface of Mirrorshades describes the genre as having “compressed” prose, as Professor Sample said in class. I have to wonder if it’s only … Continue reading → Continue reading