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  • On the Calculation of Volume I & II: Review & Analysis

    her late 20s whose ordinary life as a wife and traveling antique dealer takes a sudden turn when she finds Which never comes, as she wakes to find November 18th repeating on her. Later she finds her own house in the town, visits her family, lives in Paris (as she had as a student I'd already enjoy just the normal story plenty, for its quiet mystery and tension and how it calls to mind If, like Tara, you find yourself living an isolated and alienated existence, perhaps my post about mindfulness

  • (Universali)Tea in Speculative Fiction [Swift Riffle]

    But the authors are using the term with our understood meaning in mind, and to have us bring our expected I've therefore been rather surprised to realize it's harder to find books that don't mention tea than Are there any in particular that come to mind for you?

  • Turning Conflict Into Community in Children of Time

    Finding common ground before it’s too late The Series In the past week I finished my re-read of Children of Strife , so you can bet Adrian Tchaikovsky's storytelling and ideas remain front and center of my mind though, this series is about groups with little in common, often on the brink of mutual destruction, finding fervently wishes to know more of the universe, which it discovered by inhabiting and mimicking the minds The Corvids go above and beyond in proving their worth by finding Miranda in the simulation, and Miranda

  • Welcome! Master List of Posts & My Promise to Readers

    When a reader opens my newsletter/blog, they will find: a) A new perspective on a social issue – perhaps Of course these are also a place where I hope you might find new stories to enjoy! and Truth ) Why ' Wind and Truth '? Obsession's Folly: Pitcher Plant Spotlight & Analysis Sacrifice: Robin Hobb & House of the Dragon A Mind Mindfulness & The Hyperion Cantos Live, Laugh, Murderbot Alone in the Tower of Babel ( Books of Babel

  • How ADHD Corrupts the Purpose of Guilt

    But as with so many oppressive thoughts, knowledge and mindfulness can sometimes pop the guilt like a character (Kaladin, Dalinar, Shallan and Szeth) to illustrate the comparisons that helped me wrap my mind

  • Dimension 20: A Storytelling Masterclass

    As trained actors and improvisers, the cast are remarkably adept at finding a tone and holding it – while plethora of fascinating ideas – including a Roman-esque legion body-swapped into velociraptors, and a mindboggling Dimension 20: Mentopolis with Inside Out: 2 and seeing what they both had to say about the workings of our minds praise and reason to watch: this show and community are among the most inclusive and welcoming you'll find If not, consider checking out the first episode here – if your mind isn't blown by the end of episode

  • Community vs Imperialism

    clubs, and found that certain ideas presented by these books seemed to strike a discordant tone in my mind this quoted section is available as an article online ): Science fiction as a genre “emerged in the mid-nineteenth-century We find constant dichotomous reframing of settler colonials as agents of space-faring Manifest Destiny I also personally struggled to find answers in Buffalo is the New Buffalo , because while Vowel is dedicated lesson to be learned here today, beyond remembering to think about media critically and having an open mind

  • Perspective, Plot and World: What Makes Great Speculative Fiction?

    I’ve added a link to a related interview I gave at the bottom of “Class Trip” from two weeks ago, find (Another – perhaps surprising – comparison comes to mind here: His Dark Materials actually shares some There are obscure references to all kinds of fiction and mythology on top of simple inventions. Char, The Magicians or His Dark Materials – though I do have a (likely incomprehensible) story idea in mind Are there any novels (or other media) that come to mind? Thanks for reading!

  • The Extraordinary Symbolism of the Stag & the Wolf

    Robb seemed to be doing the same with Grey Wind – in battle, no less – and a horrifying but plausible fan theory speculates that he entered his wolf's mind at the Red Wedding, only to die a second time Perhaps it isn't even done: The Winds of Winter still features Stannis Baratheon fighting to liberate Are there any similarly far-reaching pieces of imagery that come to your mind?

  • What is House of Leaves? Part III: Johnny Truant & Pelafina

    Johnny and his friend Lude find Zampanò's manuscript in his boarded up apartment, not long after the Yet his mind also seems to wander in the midst of writing, leading to footnotes spanning multiple pages The letters themselves are a heartbreaking chronicle of a woman who can't trust her own mind, reaching She finds him immediately. After all, what else is there? Yet I still feel the pull to look deeper – much stronger since finding out yesterday that Mark Z.

  • [Vampires IX] You Are What You Eat

    You can find all the previous entries (and hopefully some explanation for my endless fascination with Yet amongst the corpses, they find a pale, human-rat-like creature in a cage, the iron bars of which Good Stab's vampirism (not referred to as such until the very end of the book, mind) has a few unique , I really appreciate how far Jones went with having his characters literally transform in body and mind

  • Worlds Without Gender

    Either way, I therefore greatly appreciate stories that reflect my own experiences where I can find them Fastnesses, daily calorie and nutrient intake is closely tracked for survival, and a certain degree of mindfulness But in a social sense (and along with their inbuilt tendency toward mindfulness) it may also promote

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