Thoughts on Science fiction
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Black Panther
A morally nuanced action film for our time.
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Ancillary Justice
Can there ever be a just empire?
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The Peripheral
Might catastrophe be used as a form of population control?
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Anathem
Information wants to be promiscuous.
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The Forever War
For many returning from war, they might as well be returning to another planet.
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A History of the Future in 100 Objects
The future will be a lot like the present, only more.
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The Left Hand of Darkness
You can learn a lot from what makes you uncomfortable, if you can just get over that discomfort.
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Black Mirror
Does technology amplify the ugliest aspects of humanity, or merely reveal them?
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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
The future might be dramatically different from the present while still recognizably the same.
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The Dispossessed
Freedom is rarely something you simply have or lose. More often, the prices of some freedoms are others.
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Pump Six
Our species can barely handle the present day: how the hell are we going to handle the future?
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Terminal World
What if disturbances in the fabric of spacetime enforced technological disparities between parts of a city?
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Embassytown
Language is power.
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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
If you could go back in time, you'd be the same schmuck you've always been, only younger.
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Snow Crash
Everything is a virus.
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The Windup Girl
If our species doesn't survive, it will be because we didn't deserve to.