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alexseanchai) wrote2015-03-25 07:40 pm
alexseanchai) wrote2015-03-25 07:40 pm
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liveblogging Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
7:03 pm:
I am gonna love this book.
7:05 pm: Two pages into "Revolution Shuffle", I'm noping out. Zombies, you see.
7:09 pm: "The Token Superhero" is a lil bit anvilicious and summaryish but the bones of it are fantastic.
7:14 pm: "The River". Ouch. Kinda wondering about later implications for the city, though.
7:21 pm: from "Evidence": a twenty-first-century palimpsest called google hah win. But the amazing thing is how people spoke and wrote and danced anyway. Imagine being afraid to speak. And obviously in the world of "Evidence" a major catastrophe happened, but I kind of want to move there anyway.
7:26 pm: "Black Angel" has a much more sympathetic protagonist than the protagonist thinks.
7:32 pm: "The Long Memory"—they have no libraries? I think this is meant to be fantasy—it's certainly a created-world setting—but that one detail makes it read like horror. Good for Cy and the others, though. I don't think I'd be brave enough for a hunger strike.
7:38 pm: "Small and Bright": I really feel for Orion. The last paragraph confuses me, though, it's such a change in tone.
7:42 pm: I can't make anything of "In Spite of Darkness".
7:45 pm: from "Hollow": How do you teach a history of hate in the name of love?
7:49 pm: "Lalibela": !!!!!
7:51 pm: from "Little Brown Mouse": No struggle feels futile to the one struggling. This feels like the beginning of a much bigger story.
7:55 pm: I can't make anything of "Sanford and Sun".
7:58 pm: "Runway Blackout" is win. Or, well, it's win until the backlash hits.
8:04 pm: "Kafka's Last Laugh" needs a trigger warning for torture. Last line: Laughter was the means by which everything could change.
8:06 pm: "22XX: One-Shot": gotta love the protagonist's priorities.
8:10 pm: I can't make anything of "Manhunters".
8:12 pm: "Aftermath" is an excerpt from a novel and I expect makes more sense in context.
8:16 pm: Ditto "Fire on the Mountain".
8:27 pm: "Homing Instinct": huh. I thought there was something in the US Constitution expressly forbidding the forbidding of travel across state lines, but Apparently Not. (I just checked.) That said. Also, "twenty miles per month"? How would that work in practice, given how many people live more than ten miles from their place of employment? I wanna hear more.
8:30 pm: "Children Who Fly": that exotic thing called jobs. Hah. Yes.
8:35 pm: Need to reread and think more about "Outro".
Whenever we try to envision a world without war, without violence, without prisons, without capitalism, we are engaging in speculative fiction. All organizing is science fiction. Organizers and activists dedicate their lives to creating and envisioning another world, or many other worlds—so what better venue for organizers to explore their work than science fiction stories?—Walidah Imarisha, Octavia's Brood introduction
I am gonna love this book.
7:05 pm: Two pages into "Revolution Shuffle", I'm noping out. Zombies, you see.
7:09 pm: "The Token Superhero" is a lil bit anvilicious and summaryish but the bones of it are fantastic.
7:14 pm: "The River". Ouch. Kinda wondering about later implications for the city, though.
7:21 pm: from "Evidence": a twenty-first-century palimpsest called google hah win. But the amazing thing is how people spoke and wrote and danced anyway. Imagine being afraid to speak. And obviously in the world of "Evidence" a major catastrophe happened, but I kind of want to move there anyway.
7:26 pm: "Black Angel" has a much more sympathetic protagonist than the protagonist thinks.
7:32 pm: "The Long Memory"—they have no libraries? I think this is meant to be fantasy—it's certainly a created-world setting—but that one detail makes it read like horror. Good for Cy and the others, though. I don't think I'd be brave enough for a hunger strike.
7:38 pm: "Small and Bright": I really feel for Orion. The last paragraph confuses me, though, it's such a change in tone.
7:42 pm: I can't make anything of "In Spite of Darkness".
7:45 pm: from "Hollow": How do you teach a history of hate in the name of love?
7:49 pm: "Lalibela": !!!!!
7:51 pm: from "Little Brown Mouse": No struggle feels futile to the one struggling. This feels like the beginning of a much bigger story.
7:55 pm: I can't make anything of "Sanford and Sun".
7:58 pm: "Runway Blackout" is win. Or, well, it's win until the backlash hits.
8:04 pm: "Kafka's Last Laugh" needs a trigger warning for torture. Last line: Laughter was the means by which everything could change.
8:06 pm: "22XX: One-Shot": gotta love the protagonist's priorities.
8:10 pm: I can't make anything of "Manhunters".
8:12 pm: "Aftermath" is an excerpt from a novel and I expect makes more sense in context.
8:16 pm: Ditto "Fire on the Mountain".
8:27 pm: "Homing Instinct": huh. I thought there was something in the US Constitution expressly forbidding the forbidding of travel across state lines, but Apparently Not. (I just checked.) That said. Also, "twenty miles per month"? How would that work in practice, given how many people live more than ten miles from their place of employment? I wanna hear more.
8:30 pm: "Children Who Fly": that exotic thing called jobs. Hah. Yes.
8:35 pm: Need to reread and think more about "Outro".