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the stone gods review

Doomed Android Love Story On Infinite Repeat

Some science fiction book lovers have a dark mythology in their heads about literary poaching: literary authors lift speculative ideas and themes, handle them clumsily, and then insult the genre they're pillaging. It's a paranoid fantasy, and mostly not true. But I have a feeling Jeanette Winterson's newest novel, The Stone Gods, will become something of a posterchild for that viewpoint. It's too bad, since once you get past Winterson's clumsiness around speculative themes, you find something stranger and more provocative than either SF or literature. Spoilers are in the offing. More »

12:40 PM on Tue May 13 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
1,956 views, 29 comments

Latest by n/a: Didn't i read somewhere that she had denied that it was Sf in the same way that Rowling denies thst HP is fantasy.Plus there is the fact that nobody has mentioned yet that the author is herself gay so is more »

evil humans

Are You Ready To Be An Evil Colonist?

Humans are a plague, shredding across the galaxy and destroying other peace-loving creatures. At least, that seems to be the theme of a number of movies that are coming out in the next few years. I've been wondering what would replace the post-apocalyptic-Earth as the stock plot for "dark" science fiction movies, and the evil-humans-in-space plot seems increasingly likely to rule. Among others, James Cameron's Avatar and the new animated film Terra seem to be exploring this theme, which is a standard plot in written science fiction, but is fairly new to the movies. Click through for details. More »

4:30 PM on Wed May 7 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
4,609 views, 28 comments

Latest by n/a: What's the rationale for taking over all these worlds again? To strip mine them of all the resources that are, apparently, so much more abundant and cheaper to get to at the bottom of a gravity well than from more »