5/26/2023 0 Comments Middlegame by Seanan McGuire![]() ![]() Middlegame is as it is purported to be, it is a middle, the midway, the equidistant point between the beginning and the end. ![]() And I am sitting here twiddling my thumbs and wishing for so much more. I finished dashing through the last thirty pages of Middlegame about 5 mins ago’ I now have the most unsettling feeling of, “Now what? Please story don’t end.” Alas, it did as it would have to. My Thoughts “Words can be whispered bullet-quick when no one’s looking, and words don’t leave blood or bruises behind. But he has a plan: to raise the twins to the highest power, to ascend with them and claim their authority as his own. Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his progenitor before him. Roger and Dodger aren’t exactly human, though they don’t realize it. All she understands, she does so through the power of math. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story. Skilled with words, languages come quickly to him. “The universe operates according to several basic principles” ![]() 4/5 Middlegame by Seanan McGuire ![]()
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5/25/2023 0 Comments S. by J.J. Abrams![]() ![]() To be honest Chris pine is great in the movie, it's just that at times he too much of an archetype 'bad-ass', dare I say it? How many times have I seen a drunken protagonist in a bar starting a fight with a guy and/or trying to get a girl who views him as trash. The story never drags at all and it's all together a pretty well written piece of sci-fi I must add. Zachary Quinto is the beloved Spock and for one of those hyper-intelligent characters it's a character you will end up feeling emotionally drawn to. Eric Bana was excellent as Nero, not to mention Bruce Greenwood is awesome as well. ![]() The cast is pretty well put together, and each character is pretty memorable and involved quite well. I myself was surprised when I first saw it, seeing all the relatable humor it was pouring out, but unlike the redundant idiocy of let's say Michael Bay, the jokes are welcome and don't go too far. The beauty of this film is that you can be a hard core Trek-fan or a simple lover of sci-fi or action and still find this an incredibly enjoyable movie. I've memorized much of the Star Wars epic sci-fi fantasy and numerous characters, but the universe of Star Trek is one I have not really explored. I should start this by saying that I always leaned more toward Star Wars than Star Trek. ![]() 5/25/2023 0 Comments The Waterworks by E.L. Doctorow![]() His publications include: Conversations with W. Michael Wutz is Rodney H Brady Presidential Distinguished Professor at Weber State University. A Half Century of Friendship and Literary Greatness, Victor Navasky Doctorow, Inhabiting History, Jennifer Eganġ2. City of God / City of Bits: Signs, Signals, Noise, Michael Wutzġ0. Literary Neutrinos and the Hot Dark Matters of Doctorow’s City of God, Nathan Frankĩ. III Narrative, Media, and Cognition-The Case of City of GodĨ. Doctorow and the Tunnel of Love, Alexander Howard "A Rearrangement of Molecules": On Doctorow’s Perpetual Motion Machines, Julian Murphetħ. Doctorow’s The Book of Daniel and Its Political Implications, Jieun KwonĦ. Redeeming the National Ideal: Revisiting E. Submerged Politics and the Artist, Nicholas Murgatroydĥ. Doctorow as Short Story Writer, Mark AzzopardiĤ. "The Dark Horrors of Consciousness": Doctorow and the Gothic, Stephen Archģ. Doctorow and the Halbbildungsroman, Tamlyn AveryĢ. Doctorow Reconsidered, Michael Wutz and Julian Murphetġ. ![]() 5/25/2023 0 Comments Capitalist realism by mark fisher![]() ![]() ![]() This effort started to morph into something more than k-punk in 2007, when Fisher quit his teaching job and started work on a larger book-length project. But while many of his academic contemporaries lost themselves to pedantry and career advancement, Fisher used all this ‘theory’ to actually try to make sense of the world. And it’s clear that Spinoza, Kant and Nietzsche, not to mention the likes of Baudrillard, Zizek and Lacan, all continued to infuse his thought and writing. It all culminated in his 1999 PhD thesis, Flatline constructs: Gothic materialism and cybernetic theory-fiction. His thought certainly bears the intellectual imprint of those intense, heady postgraduate years, studying philosophy at the University of Warwick and knocking around with a collective known as the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit. As he put it in an interview in 2010, he had ‘started blogging as a way of getting back into writing after the traumatic experience of doing a PhD’. Fisher was in his thirties at the time and working as an FE lecturer in Kent. ![]() |