Category Archives: Group 6
Diary Entry, November XXXX
Note: For the purposes of this blog, I made Akin a little older than he is in Part II, chap. 11, where I got my ideas from. ~KP I have got to say, today had to be the weirdest, yet most interesting day in my life (well, in my new life). The day started […] Continue reading
Galt’s Shift
When Tilden picked up the baby, he held it all wrong. I wanted to snatch Akin from his arms and prevent potential injuries. My skin was pale, and his was tan, but he could have been one of mine. I had three before the war. When they Awakened me, I had none. He looked so […] Continue reading
Resister Journal Entry
Yesterday we ventured to the trade village in hopes of kidnapping the most human-looking infant construct we could find. It is still unimaginable to me that humans should choose to live amongst and intimately with those goddamn aliens. It fucking … Continue reading →
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Comment on Web Redemption by Aram Zucker-Scharff
“For me, the book is focusing a lot more on moods and abstract geography.”
It’s interesting that you think that. In his later books (especially his most recent novels) it becomes way more pronounced. Zero History, Pattern Recognition and Spook Country feel almost obsessed with not just those things, but almost moods expressed through geography. It’s the same in his earlier novel All Tomorrow’s Parties too, though there (and throughout that particular trilogy) there’s also a focus on data as geography.
I thought that the recent Deus Ex video game got the concept of the pods just right – http://static.msxbox-world.com/assets/guide-images/209/18-2.jpg
+1 for Ghostwriter, I think the Ghostwriter board game is still sitting somewhere in my parents’ basement. 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
Dear Akin please grow up to be a human looking alien hybrid, love mo
Dear Akin, As I look forward to your birth, I cannot help but be filled with apprehension and anticipation. You are the fulfillment of dreams I never thought I would again be able have. I believed giving birth to a … Continue reading → Continue reading
Event Horizon
An event horizon is a “boundary in spacetime beyond which events cannot affect an outside observer” (wiki). It is most commonly referred to when talking about black holes. But what about as a science fiction metaphor, Butler uses it when talking about Akin’s preconception of Lilith’s DNA. She writes “there was something beyond the nucleotides […]
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Mixed Emotions
My Dearest Boy, You will be the first of your kind. Your future is bright and vast and limitless.You will be loved and cared for like no other. You will never be alone. You are a construct. In fact, the first human born constuct male. Together with your siblings you will pave the way for others […] Continue reading
Safe, Sane and Consensual
Consent in modern day life is pretty straightforward. If you do not get verbal or written permission from someone then you do not have their consent. If you do not hear a verbal invitation you do not proceed. If someone does not say “Yes”, tells you “No” or puts up a physical struggle during sex […] Continue reading