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Same Bed Different Dreams – Ed Park

June 20, 2025 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Ed Park is a very entertaining writer, very well executed, I keep being reminded of a combination of Lilla and Pynchon, light and dark, light and heavy. If you are in the mood for something dense, well written, this novel is great, full of wit as well. The author is Korean-American and tells the story … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, History, Politics, Racism, What I Read Tagged: Ed Park, fiction, Korean, Korean Provisional Government, Korean-American, KPG, New York Review of Books

Disruptions : stories by Steven Millhauser

December 18, 2023 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Disruptions : stories Steven Millhauser 12/15/2023 This collection was my first book by Millhauser and I liked it a lot. He has a unique viewpoint, mostly 1st person narrative and the scenarios he creates are quite bizarre. The story “After the beheading” is, as many of his stories are, set in a community. This one … [Read more…]

Posted in: Arts, Content, Faits Divers, Sea Stories, What I Read Tagged: 21st Centry, After the beheading, American, Disruptions, fiction, Steven Millhauser

Loosed upon the world : the Saga anthology of climate fiction edited by John Joseph Adams.

December 9, 2023 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Comment on the genre of “climate fiction,” which now, in late 2023 is pretty well defined, this entry suggests it has been around for centuries but gained momentum around 2010. Cli-Fi (Climate Fiction) The Wikipedia entry for Climate Fiction contains this: “Technologies such as climate engineering or climate adaptation practices often feature prominently in works … [Read more…]

Posted in: Arts, Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, Future of Work, IT Failures, Nuclear Industry, Obituaries, Pandemic, Politics, Racism, Science, Sea Stories, the Anthropocene, Thinking about, Uncategorized, What I Read Tagged: Alan Dean Foster, Angela Penrose, apocalypse, Cat Sparks, Charlie Jane Anders, Chen Qiufan, Chris Bachelder, CLI-FI, climate, climate engineering, Climate Fiction, Craig DeLancey, fiction, Gregory Benford, Jason Gurley, Jean-Louis Trudel, Jim Shepard, Karl Schroeder, Kim Stanley Robinson, Kristen Finley, Literature, Margaret Atwood, Nancy Kress, Nicole Feldringer, Paolo Bacigalupi, Ramez Naam, Robert Silverberg, Sarah K. Castle, Sean McMullen, Seanan McGuire, the future, Tobias Buckell, Tobias S. Buckell, Vandana Singh

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