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I enjoyed the thought work that John Brunner has developed in this story. He’s certainly made waiting for the bus extremely enjoyable. The book was written in 1968 and reads like a documentary about what the 2000s could have been like if you combine 1960’s social culture with the 1980-2000 megacorporations, and the US’s foreign […]
As a survivor of the Bush years, reading John Brunner’s The Sheep Look Up was a roller coaster that climbed high into the “oh my God don’t they know that’s a bad idea,” and dove into chasms of sadness as the characters in the book struggled to survive. The Sheep Look Up is an advanced […]
As many have said, science fiction isn’t about the future, it’s about the present. In fighting the Cylons, Galactica explores what it means to be human, and these explorations are riddled with conflict just like the battle that is going on in the world today.
A wonderful anime called Speed Grapher is about a Tokyo where money buys you anything you wish. This setting allows Speed Grapher to follow the main character in a quest to make society fairer.
Every time I use an online bank, 401k, or some other service, I shudder. They ask me a bunch of personal questions about my favorite color, whether I wet the bed when I was young, and if I played dress-up with my sister’s barbies. Should that get into the wrong hands… I could be ruined. […]
