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April 6, 2014

Blurring the Boundaries

A review of Greg Bechtel’s Boundary Problems (Freehand Books, 2014) By Derek Newman-Stille We tend to think of boundaries as stable, fixed, unchangeable, but boundaries are inherently permeable, and any boundary that is created is created because someone or something is able to slip trough it. Greg Bechtel writes on these borderlands whether they be of genre (realism, science fiction,...

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April 2, 2014

Interweaving Worlds of Possibility

A Review of Greg Bechtel’s “The Everett-Wheeler Hypothesis (Or, the Many-Worlds Interpretation)” from Boundary Problems (Freehand Books, 2014) By Derek Newman-Stille We all have a desire to figure out the world around us and our place in it. In Greg Bechtel’s “The Everett-Wheeler Hypothesis (Or, the Many-Worlds Interpretation)”, Matthew keeps finding himself in positions where he is near to uncovering...

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April 13, 2013

Quote – SF Taught Us How to Think About the Unthinkable

“It was science fiction, future fiction, SF, that taught us how to think about death and despoilation by radiation, chemical waste devastation, Big Brother, Star Wars and Nculear Winter. So what’s “unthinkable” now?” -Judith Merril – Afterward (Tesseracts)

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January 19, 2013

Quote – Hope For The Future That Imagination Reaches Beyond The Present

“That’s our only hope for the future, isn’t it? That the imagination reaches beyond the present to glimpse not so much a sense of meaning in what lies all around us, but to let us simply see it in the first place?” -Charles de Lint – The Conjure Man In The Very Best of Charles de Lint.

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November 21, 2012

Displacement

A Review of On Spec #89 Vol 24, No. 2 (Summer 2012 issue) By Derek Newman-Stille I have been a fan of On Spec for some time. I enjoy the quality of their stories, the diversity of their authors, and their ability to play with diverse characteristics of the speculative medium. I enjoy the fact that On Spec combines short...

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October 20, 2012

Patient Zero and the Post-Human

A review of Nina Munteanu’s Darwin’s Paradox (Dragon Moon Press, 2007) By Derek Newman-Stille In Darwin’s Paradox Nina Munteanu displays her awareness of scientific discourse: focussing on areas like chaos theory, biological theories of co-evolution, symbiosis and virology, and ecological theories. Her protagonist, Julie, is patient zero in a spreading epidemic that has infected most of modern civilisation. Munteanu creates...

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Tag: future

Blurring the Boundaries

Interweaving Worlds of Possibility

Quote – SF Taught Us How to Think About the Unthinkable

Quote – Hope For The Future That Imagination Reaches Beyond The Present

Displacement

Patient Zero and the Post-Human