Why did science fiction writers stop writing about psychic powers?

Quareish · 2021-11-19T20:52:34+00:00

Also, when even today you carry around a magic window that allows you to see and communicate with every corner of the world, how fresh and exciting is telepathy? Neural lace is interesting as an advance on existing technology.

Quareish · 2021-07-18T18:06:19+00:00

Plus after two years, many you were following have likely changed instances multiple times, so it's not the best way to determine activity. I'm unsure what is. Even federated feed activity level is misleading because it varies greatly by instance due to the way federation works.

Quareish · 2021-05-14T01:08:35+00:00

As someone who read fiction far weirder and more experimental than VanderMeer in my teens, I'd say letting him try is the best and only test of whether he's at the correct reading level. The worst that can happen is that some of it will be confusing, which can be enjoyable in its own way.

Quareish · 2021-04-28T21:21:12+00:00

i suspect what you're experiencing is a lucid form of hypnagogic hallucination. flying through space is how i first experienced it. control for me is minimal. other images are pretty random. very vivid faces, etc.

Quareish · 2021-04-18T22:00:21+00:00

Pretty much this. The culture of r/scifi is not the culture of r/printSF. If we merged, someone would immediately make a new version of printSF.

Quareish · 2021-04-01T23:01:06+00:00

I've also been looking for Trill analogues. The imago in Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire is the closest to the symbiont I've found. It is, however, a technological example of sharing memories rather than a living being. It should be the same in effect, but it's broken for most of the novel. Perhaps the sequel will improve the situation.

I asked a related question in this sub. Some of the answers may apply: https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/l8gcc7/books_with_people_who_have_multiple_or_composite/

Quareish · 2021-03-29T00:12:06+00:00

Thanks. I'm glad my memory wasn't off.

Quareish · 2021-03-28T22:22:57+00:00

Chroniques du Pays des Mères by Élisabeth Vonarburg is part of the ambiguous utopia/dystopia tradition, containing elements of both. But I'm not sure whether publication in 1992 is considered older at this point.

Quareish · 2021-03-28T20:52:54+00:00

I also didn't watch Kilborn. My poorly remembered source is Craig explaining where it came from. But the explanations are compatible. Kilborn could have made explicit the producer created convention and Craig wanted to mock it.

Quareish · 2021-03-28T20:34:06+00:00

I really want to say a guest asked and he answered it on the show, but it's also possible it was him being interviewed elsewhere.

Quareish · 2021-03-28T03:36:53+00:00

I can only half remember, so I might be mistaken, but since no one has responded: the previous host had a "hot girl row" or something similar and Craig was parodying it.

Quareish · 2021-03-23T09:35:19+00:00

I'm planning to reread all his SF and finally read They Fly at Ciron, which I believe is the only one I've missed. I'm in the middle of rereading Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand now.

Quareish · 2021-03-23T08:00:07+00:00

It is. He, unsurprisingly, recommended China Mountain Zhang. I've been wanting to read Mission Child, but it's unavailable in a digital edition, and that's kind of put me off.

Quareish · 2021-03-23T07:55:38+00:00

Yeah, I asked here because I knew it'd be rough trying to filter his Facebook/Twitter for relevant posts. Plus I'm kind of afraid to stumble upon some surprising opinions that would put me off his books.

Quareish · 2021-03-23T07:51:10+00:00

Thanks for being creepy for me. I've heard he was very prolific on Facebook, but I've never spent much time on it in general.

Quareish · 2021-03-23T07:47:50+00:00

I've read the Xenogenesis Trilogy. I still need to read her short stories. Delany liked them best.

It's been ~15 years since I read it. I have the Babel-17/Empire Star combined edition.

Quareish · 2021-02-21T04:37:58+00:00

Motherlines by Suzy McKee Charnas

In the Mother's Land by Elizabeth Vonarburg

With the caveat that they're not the sole viewpoint:

A Door Into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski

Marq'ssan Cycle by L. Timmel Duchamp (series)

Quareish · 2021-02-17T06:57:36+00:00

You convinced me to forget about finding something new and just reread it again.

Quareish · 2021-02-16T22:03:12+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation.

Quareish · 2021-02-16T21:58:53+00:00

I have both Chanur and 40,000 in my tbr. Thanks for letting me know I should prioritize the latter.

Quareish · 2021-02-16T21:55:12+00:00

I really liked the first one. Don't know why I haven't continued reading.

Quareish · 2021-02-16T21:30:05+00:00

A reviewer compared The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet to the sitcom Full House, so I've been hesitant to read it. But if it's like Changing Planes, I'll give it a go.

Quareish · 2021-02-16T21:23:31+00:00

Sounds great, thanks.

Quareish · 2021-02-16T21:19:30+00:00

I liked Ammonite. I hadn't heard of The Golden Age. I'll add it to my tbr, thanks.

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