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--- I need to read Becker's book...]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["How science fiction forged a unique Russian vision of modernity distinct from Western models
"Science fiction emerged in Russia considerably earlier than its English version and instantly became the hallmark of Russian modernity. We Modern People investigates why science fiction appeared here, on the margins of Europe, before the genre had even been named, and what it meant for people who lived under conditions that Leon Trotsky famously described as "combined and uneven development." Russian science fiction was embraced not only in literary circles and popular culture, but also by scientists, engineers, philosophers, and political visionaries. Anindita Banerjee explores the handful of well-known early practitioners, such as Briusov, Bogdanov, and Zamyatin, within a much larger continuum of new archival material comprised of journalism, scientific papers, popular science texts, advertisements, and independent manifestos on social transformation. In documenting the unusual relationship between Russian science fiction and Russian modernity, this book offers a new critical perspective on the relationship between science, technology, the fictional imagination, and the consciousness of being modern."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- His account of the early history of SF is... selective, to say the least.]]></description>
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    <title>Lena @ Things Of Interest</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- Nicely done.  But there was a very similar conceit in McAuley's _Something Coming Through_.  (And probably before that, SF being what it is.)]]></description>
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    <title>COMP.BASILISK FAQ | Nature</title>
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    <link>https://www.nature.com/articles/44964</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- Of course, 23 years later we have cultists who take this seriously...]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- I hadn't realized Emrys had a new book out.
--- I have always thought bioregionalism a very silly proposal for social organization.  [Ob1990sBook: Martin Lewis, _Green Delusions_.) Having bioregionalism be a response to a _global climate crisis_ is, pardon the expression, galaxy-brained.  But R.E. is smart so I suspect she's thought about that.)]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2021-11-19T01:10:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.orbit-books.co.uk/titles/ken-macleod-5/beyond-the-hallowed-sky/9780356514796/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["When a brilliant scientist gets a letter from herself about faster-than-light travel, she doesn’t know what to believe. The equations work, but her paper is discredited – and soon the criticism is more than scientific. Exiled by the establishment, she gets an offer to build her starship from an unlikely source. But in the heights of Venus and on a planet of another star, a secret is already being uncovered that will shake humanity to its foundations."

--- Why am I only learning about this now?!?]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted science_fiction macleod.ken books:owned</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://crookedtimber.org/2021/11/15/the-future-finds-its-own-use-for-things/">
    <title>The Future Finds Its Own Uses for Things — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2021-11-15T16:35:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://crookedtimber.org/2021/11/15/the-future-finds-its-own-use-for-things/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>science_fiction social_science_methodology farrell.henry have_read kith_and_kin</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:fd8843a80e8b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.gc.cuny.edu/CUNY_GC/media/LISCenter/pkrugman/FDT-intro.pdf">
    <title>Introduction to the Foundation Trilogy (Krugman)</title>
    <dc:date>2021-10-27T19:29:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.gc.cuny.edu/CUNY_GC/media/LISCenter/pkrugman/FDT-intro.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- I am honestly a little disappointed that Uncle Paul doesn't discuss the inspiration from statistical mechanics.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>krugman.paul asimov.isaac science_fiction literary_criticism social_science_methodology via:henry_farrell</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:8964ee0e6f9b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.04208">
    <title>[2107.04208] From Many to One: Consensus Inference in a MIP</title>
    <dc:date>2021-07-12T14:51:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.04208</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A Model Intercomparison Project (MIP) consists of teams who each estimate the same underlying quantity (e.g., temperature projections to the year 2070), and the spread of the estimates indicates their uncertainty. It recognizes that a community of scientists will not agree completely but that there is value in looking for a consensus and information in the range of disagreement. A simple average of the teams' outputs gives a consensus estimate, but it does not recognize that some outputs are more variable than others. Statistical analysis of variance (ANOVA) models offer a way to obtain a weighted consensus estimate of outputs with a variance that is the smallest possible and hence the tightest possible 'one-sigma' and 'two-sigma' intervals. Modulo dependence between MIP outputs, the ANOVA approach weights a team's output inversely proportional to its variation. When external verification data are available for evaluating the fidelity of each MIP output, ANOVA weights can also provide a prior distribution for Bayesian Model Averaging to yield a consensus estimate. We use a MIP of carbon dioxide flux inversions to illustrate the ANOVA-based weighting and subsequent consensus inferences."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB ensemble_methods science_fiction cressie.noel statistics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:8317ff977650/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jul/29/last-and-first-men-review-tilda-swinton-johann-johannsson">
    <title>Last and First Men review – eerie sounds and unearthly images from a posthuman world | Science fiction and fantasy films | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2021-06-02T21:31:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jul/29/last-and-first-men-review-tilda-swinton-johann-johannsson</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[How the blazes am I only learning about this now?  _Last and First Men_ was a formative book for me, and one which holds up [http://bactra.org/weblog/algae-2017-08.html#stapledon]]]></description>
<dc:subject>movies coveted science_fiction</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250782113?e=fe2b0f22052b6dcd565340fe9fb911ebf4d0e792a9bad4d73178ebf33afb7a06">
    <title>The Album of Dr. Moreau | Daryl Gregory | Macmillan</title>
    <dc:date>2021-05-19T19:08:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250782113?e=fe2b0f22052b6dcd565340fe9fb911ebf4d0e792a9bad4d73178ebf33afb7a06</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It’s 2001, and the WyldBoyZ are the world’s hottest boy band, and definitely the world’s only genetically engineered human-animal hybrid vocal group. When their producer, Dr. M, is found murdered in his hotel room, the “boyz” become the prime suspects. Was it Bobby the ocelot (“the cute one”), Matt the megabat (“the funny one”), Tim the Pangolin (“the shy one”), Devin the bonobo (“the romantic one”), or Tusk the elephant (“the smart one”)?
"Las Vegas Detective Luce Delgado has only twenty-four hours to solve a case that goes all the way back to the secret science barge where the WyldBoyZ’ journey first began—a place they used to call home."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted science_fiction parody books:owned</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e7adacdd1207/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5621/sciefictstud.44.3.0437">
    <title>Uses of the End of the World: Apocalypse and Postapocalypse as Narrative Modes on JSTOR</title>
    <dc:date>2021-04-12T02:55:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5621/sciefictstud.44.3.0437</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Through a broad survey of fictional, religious, philosophical, and political end-time narratives, this essay identifies two strategies for telling stories about the end of the world. Apocalyptic narratives use the idea of the end to give structure to the experience of history. By narrating the end as a moment of rupture that creates an absolute division between old and new worlds, they frame history as a series of clearly defined and therefore comprehensible transitions between distinct moments or epochs. Postapocalyptic narratives complicate this neatly organized account by narrating “ends” as complex historical transformations that involve survivals and continuities and thus blur before/after distinctions. Rather than providing a comprehensive and therefore existentially stabilizing overview of history, they draw attention to the indeterminate nature of ongoing processes of historical change. By focusing on the conceptual understanding of historical change that underwrites different kinds of end-time narratives, the essay clarifies the theoretical terminology of apocalypse and postapocalypse, and articulates a clearer understanding of the ways in which different kinds of contemporary stories about the end of the world are used to provide conceptual support for political action in the present."]]></description>
<dc:subject>millenarianism literary_criticism literary_history apocalypticism science_fiction</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:0dd530028f59/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv10crctq">
    <title>Flowers of Time: On Postapocalyptic Fiction on JSTOR</title>
    <dc:date>2020-12-10T05:52:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv10crctq</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>to:NB books:noted science_fiction apocalypticism literary_criticism literary_history downloaded</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/opinion/future-scooters-central-park.html#click=https://t.co/JalBTi9zCb">
    <title>Opinion | We Shouldn’t Bother the Feral Scooters of Central Park - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2020-10-01T21:48:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/opinion/future-scooters-central-park.html#click=https://t.co/JalBTi9zCb</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>science_fiction evolution genetic_algorithms robots_and_robotics shane.janelle funny:geeky</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:19262e545801/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:genetic_algorithms"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://aiweirdness.com/post/185883998702/ais-named-by-ais">
    <title>Letting neural networks be weird • AIs named by AIs</title>
    <dc:date>2019-07-02T15:02:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://aiweirdness.com/post/185883998702/ais-named-by-ais</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Training a neural network to generate Culture ship names.]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:geeky science_fiction neural_networks via:?</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:a78253b64b33/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://newrepublic.com/article/153615/gene-wolfe-proust-science-fiction">
    <title>Gene Wolfe Was the Proust of Science Fiction | The New Republic</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-18T18:18:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://newrepublic.com/article/153615/gene-wolfe-proust-science-fiction</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>literary_criticism lives_of_the_artists wolfe.gene fantasy science_fiction dying_earth catholicism heer.jeet</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:93bd5baeea5e/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:lives_of_the_artists"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:wolfe.gene"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:science_fiction"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:catholicism"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/postapocalyptic-fantasies-in-antebellum-american-literature/0EAC020362CB6D2A2C6F9C712361B5E7#fndtn-information">
    <title>Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature by John Hay</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-06T02:43:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/postapocalyptic-fantasies-in-antebellum-american-literature/0EAC020362CB6D2A2C6F9C712361B5E7#fndtn-information</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Even before the Civil War, American writers were imagining life after a massive global catastrophe. For many, the blank slate of the American continent was instead a wreckage-strewn wasteland, a new world in ruins. Bringing together epic and lyric poems, fictional tales, travel narratives, and scientific texts, Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature reveals that US authors who enthusiastically celebrated the myths of primeval wilderness and virgin land also frequently resorted to speculations about the annihilation of civilizations, past and future. By examining such postapocalyptic fantasies, this study recovers an antebellum rhetoric untethered to claims for historical exceptionalism - a patriotic rhetoric that celebrates America while denying the United States a unique position outside of world history. As the scientific field of natural history produced new theories regarding biological extinction, geological transformation, and environmental collapse, American writers responded with wild visions of the ancient past and the distant future."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted downloaded literary_history american_history post-apocalyptic science_fiction something_about_america</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1536504218792521">
    <title>Why Sociology Needs Science Fiction - Daniel Hirschman, Philip Schwadel, Rick Searle, Erica Deadman, Ijlal Naqvi, 2018</title>
    <dc:date>2018-08-02T18:07:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1536504218792521</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Using sci-fi’s metaphors, ideal types, and counterfactuals to consider our real-world problems, old and new."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB to_read sociology science_fiction</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:a92f9fd25cfa/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/are-we-earths-only-civilization/557180/">
    <title>Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans? - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2018-07-07T17:26:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/are-we-earths-only-civilization/557180/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It’s not often that you write a paper proposing a hypothesis that you don’t support. Gavin and I don’t believe the Earth once hosted a 50-million-year-old Paleocene civilization. But by asking if we could “see” truly ancient industrial civilizations, we were forced to ask about the generic kinds of impacts any civilization might have on a planet. That’s exactly what the astrobiological perspective on climate change is all about. Civilization building means harvesting energy from the planet to do work (i.e., the work of civilization building). Once the civilization reaches truly planetary scales, there has to be some feedback on the coupled planetary systems that gave it birth (air, water, rock). This will be particularly true for young civilizations like ours still climbing up the ladder of technological capacity. There is, in other words, no free lunch. While some energy sources will have lower impact—say solar vs. fossil fuels—you can’t power a global civilization without some degree of impact on the planet.
"Once you realize, through climate change, the need to find lower-impact energy sources, the less impact you will leave. So the more sustainable your civilization becomes, the smaller the signal you’ll leave for future generations."

--- Stanislaw Lem, please call your office.  Also, I like the immediately-following bit:

"In addition, our work also opened up the speculative possibility that some planets might have fossil-fuel-driven cycles of civilization building and collapse. If a civilization uses fossil fuels, the climate change they trigger can lead to a large decrease in ocean oxygen levels. These low oxygen levels (called ocean anoxia) help trigger the conditions needed for making fossil fuels like oil and coal in the first place. In this way, a civilization and its demise might sow the seed for new civilizations in the future."]]></description>
<dc:subject>paleontology science_fiction climate_change have_read to:blog</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e1a4c7b41a6e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/economic-science-fictions">
    <title>Economic Science Fictions | The MIT Press</title>
    <dc:date>2018-05-18T13:20:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/economic-science-fictions</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["From the libertarian economics of Ayn Rand to Aldous Huxley's consumerist dystopias, economics and science fiction have often orbited each other. In Economic Science Fictions, editor William Davies has deliberately merged the two worlds, asking how we might harness the power of the utopian imagination to revitalize economic thinking.
"Rooted in the sense that our current economic reality is no longer credible or viable, this collection treats our economy as a series of fictions and science fiction as a means of anticipating different economic futures. It asks how science fiction can motivate new approaches to economics and provides surprising new syntheses, merging social science with fiction, design with politics, scholarship with experimental forms. With an opening chapter from Ha-Joon Chang as well as theory, short stories, and reflections on design, this book from Goldsmiths Press challenges and changes the notion that economics and science fiction are worlds apart. The result is a wealth of fresh and unusual perspectives for anyone who believes the economy is too important to be left solely to economists."

--- Re "no longer credible", I am irresistible reminded of an ancient joke.
Preacher: Sir, do you believe in infant baptism?
Layman: Believe in it?  Why, Reverend, I've seen it done!
Still, this looks right up my alley.]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted economics science_fiction</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/17/the-fantastic-ursula-k-le-guin">
    <title>The Fantastic Ursula K. Le Guin | The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-30T16:50:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/17/the-fantastic-ursula-k-le-guin</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>have_read lives_of_the_artists fantasy science_fiction anthropology</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c6cc5ec4267f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.unlikelyworlds.myzen.co.uk/Austral_page.htm">
    <title>Austral</title>
    <dc:date>2017-11-02T14:50:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.unlikelyworlds.myzen.co.uk/Austral_page.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The great geoengineering projects have failed.
"The world is still warming, sea levels are still rising, and the Antarctic  Peninsula is home to Earth's newest nation, with life quickened by ecopoets spreading across valleys and fjords exposed by the retreat of the ice.
"Austral Morales Ferrado, a child of the last generation of ecopoets, is a husky: an edited person adapted to the unforgiving climate of the far south, feared and despised by most of its population. She's been a convict, a corrections officer in a labour camp, and consort to a criminal, and now, out of desperation, she has committed the kidnapping of the century. But before she can collect the ransom and make a new life elsewhere, she must find a place of safety amongst the peninsula's forests and icy plateaus, and evade a criminal gang that has its own plans for the teenage girl she's taken hostage.
"Blending the story of Austral's flight with the fractured history of her family and its role in the colonisation of Antarctica, Austral is a vivid portrayal of a treacherous new world created by climate change, and shaped by the betrayals and mistakes of the past."

--- Why is this book, which I want with great intensity, not available in the US?]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted science_fiction climate_change antarctica mcauley.paul books:owned</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.thedailybeast.com/from-lucifers-hammer-to-newts-moon-base-to-donalds-wallthe-sci-fi-roots-of-the-far-right">
    <title>The Sci-Fi Roots of the Far Right—From ‘Lucifer’s Hammer’ to Newt’s Moon Base to Donald’s Wall</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-18T16:37:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/from-lucifers-hammer-to-newts-moon-base-to-donalds-wallthe-sci-fi-roots-of-the-far-right</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I don't remember old-school Niven & Pournelle being _that_ bad, but, well, there are the words...]]></description>
<dc:subject>science_fiction running_dogs_of_reaction auerbach.david have_read</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.tor.com/2017/03/29/the-scholast-in-the-low-waters-kingdom/">
    <title>The Scholast in the Low Waters Kingdom | Tor.com</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-11T16:09:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.tor.com/2017/03/29/the-scholast-in-the-low-waters-kingdom/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>have_read science_fiction mohism gladstone.max</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2014/03/cory-doctorow-cold-equations-and-moral-hazard/">
    <title>Locus Online Perspectives » Cory Doctorow: Cold Equations and Moral Hazard</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-16T20:12:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2014/03/cory-doctorow-cold-equations-and-moral-hazard/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>science_fiction literary_criticism moral_philosophy doctorow.cory via:henry_farrell</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://mobunited.wordpress.com/2016/12/28/leia-organa-a-critical-obituary/">
    <title>Leia Organa: A Critical Obituary – you're always being judged</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-04T00:54:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mobunited.wordpress.com/2016/12/28/leia-organa-a-critical-obituary/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>funny:geeky science_fiction have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.wired.com/2016/12/jon-rogers-a-martian-goes-hunting-for-the-past/">
    <title>The WIRED Fiction Issue: First, by John Rogers | WIRED</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-16T16:56:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.wired.com/2016/12/jon-rogers-a-martian-goes-hunting-for-the-past/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>science_fiction mars robots_and_robotics have_read rogers.john awww</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.cracked.com/article_21928_4-things-the-walking-dead-gets-wrong-about-apocalypse.html">
    <title>4 Reasons 'The Walking Dead' Hates Humans More Than Zombies</title>
    <dc:date>2016-10-30T20:22:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cracked.com/article_21928_4-things-the-walking-dead-gets-wrong-about-apocalypse.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In other words, if you want to write a real scary story, start with a world overrun by zombies and watch them try to fucking deal with an outbreak of us."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:blog literary_criticism post-apocalyptic science_fiction</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f9cc35764a80/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://torforgeblog.com/2016/05/02/world-building-like-a-historian/">
    <title>World Building like a Historian | Tor/Forge Blog</title>
    <dc:date>2016-05-02T18:10:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://torforgeblog.com/2016/05/02/world-building-like-a-historian/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I am _very_ much looking forward to this book.]]></description>
<dc:subject>science_fiction historical_fiction institutions palmer.ada</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:3c6656e09e76/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2016/02/08/plato-vs-metaphysics-or-how-very-hard-it-is-to-un-learn-freud/">
    <title>Plato vs. Metaphysics, or How Very Hard it Is to Un-Learn Freud — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2016-02-09T04:30:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2016/02/08/plato-vs-metaphysics-or-how-very-hard-it-is-to-un-learn-freud/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>book_reviews plato science_fiction literary_criticism barely-comprehensible_metaphysics history_of_ideas palmer.ada moral_philosophy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:80cd7d9f71a7/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts/VampireDomestication.pdf">
    <title>&quot;Vampire Domestication: Taming Yesterday's Nightmares for a Better Tomorrow&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2015-12-06T19:54:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts/VampireDomestication.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["An illustrated transcript of a talk presented at the First Biennial Conference on Induced Humanoid Subspecies
Peter Watts, Ph.D."]]></description>
<dc:subject>science_fiction funny:geeky funny:morbid vampires have_read via:vaguery to:blog</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/some-races-are-disciplined-is-fact-tekla-said-japanese-are-more-disciplined-than-italians">
    <title>“Some races are disciplined. Is fact.” Tekla said. “Japanese are more disciplined than ...Italians.” :: Reviews :: James Nicoll Reviews</title>
    <dc:date>2015-11-03T17:08:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/some-races-are-disciplined-is-fact-tekla-said-japanese-are-more-disciplined-than-italians</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I don't think James liked this one.]]></description>
<dc:subject>book_reviews science_fiction stephenson.neal nicoll.james</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/@RobCottingham/ancillary-stapler-a00543109b84#.uyxmerqs3">
    <title>Ancillary Stapler — Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2015-10-29T21:22:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/@RobCottingham/ancillary-stapler-a00543109b84#.uyxmerqs3</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>affectionate_parody funny:geeky science_fiction</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.maxgladstone.com/2015/10/galactic-history-or-galactic-folk-tale/">
    <title>» Galactic History, or Galactic Folk Tale? max gladstone</title>
    <dc:date>2015-10-23T21:59:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.maxgladstone.com/2015/10/galactic-history-or-galactic-folk-tale/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["General Skywalker’s contributions as a pilot are legendary, of course—the Skywalker Doctrine of Snub Combat remains required reading in the Academy—but Skywalker’s military career was cut short by his increasing religious fanaticism and withdrawal from public life.  The man, a moisture farmer turned hero, is fantastic enough from a historian’s perspective; while folk tales of his association with “lost masters” of the Jedi Order, and of his personal miracles, make for pleasant campfire evenings, they drip with mythic patterning" --- the last bit is an especially nice touch.]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:geeky star_wars science_fiction historiography</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://hahvi.net/?p=865">
    <title>Hahví.net » Blog Archive » What’s in a Name?</title>
    <dc:date>2015-10-21T02:56:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://hahvi.net/?p=865</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Nagata was, IMSAO, one of the brightest lights of hard SF in the 1990s.  (Read _Deception Well_ or _Vast_ if you don't believe me.)  This is simultaneously remarkably discouraging and totally unsurprising.]]></description>
<dc:subject>science_fiction sexism sexist_idiocy nagata.linda have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/spring_2009/fiction_a_tulip_for_lucretius_by_ken_macleod">
    <title>Fiction: A Tulip for Lucretius by Ken MacLeod — Subterranean Press</title>
    <dc:date>2015-10-18T13:57:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/spring_2009/fiction_a_tulip_for_lucretius_by_ken_macleod</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/10/12/2142030/you-see-money-doesnt-exist-in-the-24th-century/">
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    <link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/10/12/2142030/you-see-money-doesnt-exist-in-the-24th-century/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[_Reuse Your Weapons_ would be a great name for a Culture navy-surplus ship.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2013/02/14/the-longue-duree-of-the-galactic-empire/">
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For once, read the comments.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['"High in the Pyrenees Mountains," we read, "deep in abandoned mines, scientists discovered peculiar black shells that seem to crop up of their own accord on metal surfaces." ']]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.walterjonwilliams.net/2015/09/six-of-one/">
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I am insanely pleased to announce that I’ve sold six new books, three each to two different publishers."

--- Happy happy happy, joy joy joy.

(But I am selfish enough to have a small part of me disappointed that not one of these books will be the completion of _Metropolitan_ and _City on Fire_.)]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I am struck by how many of the books are praised for undermining the fantasy genre.  I could see recommending them to a comrade if you (1) thought they un-self-consciously enjoyed genre fantasy, and (2) that enjoyment/acceptance hurt the development of their political awareness, but Mieville doesn't really say why should "every socialist" read them.  An uncharitable critic could suggest that Mieville is here elevating a personal ambivalence to a universal standard of taste --- but honestly I have no idea _why_ he made such odd suggestions.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.annleckie.com/2015/08/13/ancestry/">
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I am enough of a Cherryh admirer to have written about it (http://bactra.org/notebooks/cherryh.html), but I have to say that it had never occurred to me that the _Ancillary_ books, which I like very much, were in the same lineage.  Perhaps this calls for a re-read.]]></description>
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    <title>BLDGBLOG: Immaculate Ecologies</title>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/features/iain-m-banks-culture-novels/">
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<item rdf:about="http://www.strangehorizons.com/2014/20141110/commands-f.shtml">
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[V guvax V jvyy or qvfnccbvagrq vs guvf raqf hc erirnyvat Oerd'f traqre.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/macleod_11_14_reprint/">
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    <link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/macleod_11_14_reprint/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In many ways a perfectly MacLeodian (if that's the word) story.]]></description>
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    <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/09/03/the-skynet-factor-four-myths-about-science-fiction-and-the-killer-robot-debate/</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/07/who-owns-sf.html">
    <title>Who Owns SF? - Charlie's Diary</title>
    <dc:date>2014-08-04T00:51:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/07/who-owns-sf.html</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/529431/a-qa-with-gene-wolfe/">
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<item rdf:about="http://notstatschat.tumblr.com/post/91516935421/feynman-and-the-suck-fairy">
    <title>Biased and Inefficient - Feynman and the Suck Fairy</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-25T02:30:15+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/5019373.html#cutid1">
    <title>More Words, Deeper Hole - New Celebrations by Alexei Panshin</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-16T04:22:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/5019373.html#cutid1</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.waggish.org/2014/robert-sheckleys-warm-and-p-f-strawsons-objective-attitude/">
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    <dc:date>2014-06-13T11:30:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.waggish.org/2014/robert-sheckleys-warm-and-p-f-strawsons-objective-attitude/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Lovecraft is a lot scarier if there’s a possibility that the secret knowledge might actually be true, and not so secret after all."

--- But cf. Lucretius.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2014-06-09T03:17:49+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>book_reviews science_fiction heinlein.robert via:jbdelong have_read running_dogs_of_reaction</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.deaneckles.com/blog/700_docsend_in_snow_crash/">
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    <dc:date>2014-05-09T21:14:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.deaneckles.com/blog/700_docsend_in_snow_crash/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I had actually forgotten this bit, but now it has hideous plausibility.]]></description>
<dc:subject>networked_life class_struggles_in_america science_fiction</dc:subject>
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    <title>More Words, Deeper Hole - Is it possible</title>
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    <link>http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/4815886.html#comments</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A comment, in which Charlie Stross sketches the next novel I would like to read.  Please to make this happen, thx]]></description>
<dc:subject>science_fiction</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://commonplacebooks.com/welcome-to-night-vale/">
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    <link>http://commonplacebooks.com/welcome-to-night-vale/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE is a twice-monthly podcast in the style of community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, featuring local weather, news, announcements from the Sheriff's Secret Police, mysterious lights in the night sky, dark hooded figures with unknowable powers, and cultural events.
"Turn on your radio and hide."

--- Perhaps _the_ find of 2013 for me.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.heroesandheartbreakers.com/blogs/2013/11/are-we-ready-for-tentacle-romance-yet">
    <title>Are We Ready for Tentacle Romance Yet? by Heather Massey</title>
    <dc:date>2013-11-15T01:18:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.heroesandheartbreakers.com/blogs/2013/11/are-we-ready-for-tentacle-romance-yet</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So is the proposition that the Internet eventually makes everything into a subgenre of romance novels rule 35 or rule 33?]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.rosemarykirstein.com/2013/10/not-actually-science-fiction-and-thats-a-good-thing/">
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I have no opinion yet on the movie, not having seen it, but I like the post.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/08/15/one-murder-is-statistically-utterly-unimportant-a-conversation-with-warren-ellis/">
    <title>Paris Review – “One Murder Is Statistically Utterly Unimportant”: A Conversation with Warren Ellis, Molly Crabapple</title>
    <dc:date>2013-08-29T15:21:14+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Q: Tell me more about your nonfiction book for FSG.
"A: It’s nominally about “the future of the city,” in various shapes, but it’s probably more about the work of urban futurism and the perhaps willful ways in which it ignores the past. It’s based on a talk I gave at a digital cities conference. My first and last appearance at a full-on futurist event. I never got invited to another.
"Q: This is because you said they were monsters. Why did you say such a terrible thing?
"A: I sat through several presentations that were all about novel ways of gathering urban information and then turning that data over to the relevant authorities and never once questioning or caring where it went, let alone what it was used for. (Oh, and one guy who presented his civic service idea as “a nice kind of bank,” in the same tone of voice you might use for the phrase “a nice kind of Hitler.”)  Essentially, they were all about gathering up every codon of information thrown off by the second-to-second existence of citizenry—and that’s becoming a denser stream every day, almost a digital wormcast—and just handing it over to the local state apparatus. Dazzled by the ability to collect and offer it, not even thinking about what it would be used for. I told them an old piece of apocrypha, that an inventor gifted the King of Scotland with a brand new execution device, and was quite surprised to find himself becoming the first person the king used it on."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Jake Bowers's course on science fiction & political science.  (Hold the jokes.)]]></description>
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"Banks’ SF series twirled the narrative focus around with virtuoso ease, but the books almost all shared a background: the Culture, a post-scarcity utopia populated by trillions, where humans and machine intelligences shared a plenty that made money irrelevant, and could flick away any challenge. “Basically, hippies with enormous guns”, Banks joked cheerfully in interview. But the Culture was more than wish-fulfillment for leftists. Insouciant though it was, superbly casual though it always insisted on being in its outflanking of tyrants, it was a serious attempt (with the finest pulp tools) to imagine a state of existence beyond necessity, where stories would all be driven by conflicts of character rather than the pinching of environments, and, unnecessary tragedies dispensed with, some kind of irreducible bedrock of genuine sorrow would come into view. Like all serious utopians, Banks maintained a tender eye for mortality and heartbreak. The Culture was not a place for happy ever after. Often (Look to Windward, Matter) it was a place for farewells, for entropy unflinchingly acknowledged."]]></description>
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