Recently I was reading a profile in The New Yorker* of the science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany, a contemporary of other such SF authors as Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Robert Silverberg, Isaac Asimov, Ursula K. LeGuin, Roger Zelazny, and Octavia Butler (who was, briefly, a student of Delany’s). Despite the fact that back in my younger days I read many, many books by authors from that era, I somehow managed never to read any of Delany’s work, although I’m quite familiar with his name. I’m going to guess that this is because our local library didn’t stock many Delany titles, since in those pre-Internet days of dead-tree books that you had to get from a bookstore, most of my reading material was of the borrowed variety. But I digress. Here’s how that New Yorker article started off:
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Teaser Tuesday: Still “The Will to Battle”
So this week I was still* reading the third book in the “Terra Ignota” series, The Will To Battle, by Ada Palmer:
Teaser Tuesday: “The Will to Battle”
So this week I was reading the third book in the four-book “Terra Ignota” trilogy (just go with it), The Will To Battle, by Ada Palmer:
Knowing Your Audience
So as I’ve mentioned before, whenever something we’re watching focuses on anything like a newspaper or magazine article, source code, a computer screen, a dating profile, etc., I am always compelled to pause the video and go have a closer look. Normally what’s displayed is word-like filler material, but finally—finally!—I found a show that really, really knows its audience. That show would be Doom Patrol on HBO Max.
Twofer Teaser Tuesday
So in the past few weeks I’ve read a couple of books where I decided to snip things for a Teaser Tuesday, even though, technically, on Teaser Tuesday, you’re supposed to take two sentences from whatever book you’re reading on that very day and use that as your teaser. But hey, you know how it is …
Teaser Tuesday: “The Quantum Thief”
So this week I was reading The Quantum Thief, by Hannu Rajaniemi:
Teaser Tuesday: “Ice”
So this week I was reading Ice, by Anna Kavan:
Teaser Tuesday: “Bandwidth”
So recently, I was reading a book called Bandwidth, by Eliot Peper:
Teaser Tuesday: “Radiance”
So this week I was reading Radiance, by one of my favorite authors, Catherynne M. Valente:
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Teaser Tuesday: “Robopocalypse”
So this week I was reading Robopocalypse, by Daniel H. Wilson, a book about the aftermath of the impending robot/AI uprising, which maybe you’ve heard people worrying about lately.
Viscosity 