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Friday, November 15, 2013

Skytwister Gallery

I adore the emerging twenty-first century dynamic curvilinear urban high-rise aesthetic. Vapid sarcastic post-modern citational architecture is finally ending. Along with drag multiculture and women writing wonderful new sf, here is a sign that popular creative expressivity can push past the lost dead decade behind us. More, please.

7 comments:

Chad Lott said...

Would you recommend some newer female sci-fi authors in a future post?


Dale Carrico said...

New to me, maybe not to folks hipper than me, but over the last few weeks I have enjoyed books by N.K. Jemisin, Nnedi Okorafor, and Nalo Hopkinson. I'll admit being one of the multitude who have been reading recent rather escapist dystopian YA by women that is getting made into splashy Hollyweird movies lately as well.

Dale Carrico said...

And I am assuming that any self-respecting reader of this blog would already know all about The Other Half of the Sky, the very fine sf anthology edited by friend of blog Athena Adreadis.

Chad Lott said...

Weird. I used to read Athena's blog more and I missed the book. Just ordered it.

Have you read The CIty Not Long After by Pat Murphy? It's about life in San Francisco after a disease wipes most folks out and the survivors are sort of Burning Man types who remake the city artistically.

Dale Carrico said...

I'd like to think no Burning Man types will survive the collapse of the neoliberalism they cherish. But I'll read the book anyway.

Chad Lott said...

The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk is basically the same story (SF community after an apocalypse threatened by Mad max bible thumpers), except the heroes are permaculture using brown skinned, queer positive pagans.

He's not a female author, but what's your thoughts on China Mieville? I've really enjoyed his stuff.

Athena Andreadis said...

*Purr*purr* And here I was about to comment that such structures can be seen on the cover of my anthology, when I saw the lovely words!