The Dispossessed centers around a clash of civilizations: the planet Urras, and its moon, Anarres, which was settled by a group of anarchists has been isolationist since then.
Tag: science fiction
The Ministry for the Future starts out by planting us in the middle of a living nightmare. A pre-monsoon heatwave in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is creating wet-bulb temperatures approaching the limit of human survivability.
A Scanner Darkly is both a novel about an intriguing sci-fi world and a disturbing exploration of substance abuse.
In the TV show True Detective , the character Rust Cohle says, “I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law…We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, a secretion of sensory, experience, and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody is nobody.”
Call me a book snob, but I’m still a Vonnegut stan.
2001: A Space Odyssey is by far the most disturbing movie I have ever watched. So what about the book?
It’s 2022 and the human race hasn’t destroyed itself yet. Let’s take a moment to celebrate.
My very first PKD. A rite of passage, perhaps? That was really… weird, but interesting.
My friend told me to read this seven years ago. I should have listened.
Short stories are CRIMINALLY underrated. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever written about short stories on this blog. I do read them sometimes, but definitely not as often as I read full-length novels. But I don’t think they get enough appreciation.