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Tag: science fiction
Mother – Chapter Two
All my children emanate innate energies of being, so I can find them swiftly. Solange is Intelligence. I find my children of Wisdom, Acute Observation, Irony, Independence, and lastly, my Queen of Daydreams. I think they were waiting for me. They are incubating in this world. A world of rain and water and earth.
Moondust
Helium three, / fuel of the age, / dust on the moon.
Ancient Heroes of the Electric Group Consciousness
Ancient Heroes! / In silence / You knew absolute unity. / In the hour before the noise. // In the noise / You made me material. / The interconnectedness / of everything. / Bliss. / You thought.
Three Entries from Jorin Simula, 52006-52112
I often think of beauty. What is it? Does it come from the planet? Radiating out of its molten core? Like our second bodies—how can anyone look at theirs and not know their beauty?
On Paradox
“And what do you know about paradox?” Grolier asked his younger sister, Mailka. “The harmony of opposites? But I still don’t know what that m… means.”
A Shake of Salt—Review of Plenum: The First Book of Deo
In Geoffreyjen Edwards’ science fiction novel Plenum: The First Book of Deo, the Prologue tells us that we are about to experience the first act of young “gender-neutral” Vanu Francoeur’s triple-volume story. Which is also the first act of a 15-volume …
Tempo – A Technology to Slow Time
What if you could slow down time? In a distant, not-so-far-off future, humanity has gained the power to alter the localized flow of time at will, enabling new ways of experiencing the universe and operating in extreme environments. Here is an account of the scientific speculation that went into the concept of tempo control in my upcoming novel Plenum: The First Book of Deo.
See You in Our Dreams
Intimate Reading Performance and Social Dreaming Experiment beginning June 19th The story, set in the 2050s, focuses on an underground community of poets, artists, scientists, and theater geeks (Bard-lovers) who share the weird experience of receiving …
Star Gardening
Projecting human capability and knowledge into the far future, provided we learn to manage our own planet, it seems possible that humans might learn how to modify stars in ways suited to their future needs. Why might one modify stars? I can think of a …
Episode 35Interview with L.P. Kindred
Hosts Mary Thaler and Geoffrey Edwards interview a writer of fantasy and speculative fiction from the LA area, who has published short fiction and is at work on a novel. L.P. began his professional life as a singer and songwriter, which gives his ficti …
Episode 34Prophetic Fiction
Hosts Mary Thaler and Geoffrey Edwards discuss a subset of future-looking fiction they call “Prophetic Fiction”. Drawing on different traditions around prophecy, including religious traditions and the writings of E.M. Forster, they explore different as …
Episode 31Interview with Thea Boodhoo
Hosts Mary Thaler and Geoffrey Edwards conduct an interview with writer Thea Boodhoo. Thea (pronounced “tay-ah”) is a science fiction writer based in San Francisco, California. Her short stories ‘Growing Swirling Clouds’ and ‘A Layer Thin As Breath’ ca …
Episode 22Excerpts from our Writings, Part 1
Hosts Geoffrey Edwards and Mary Thaler read from each others’ work as a complement to the other episodes concerned with different aspects of writing. In this first part, Mary is reading from “Plenum : The First Book of Deo”, Geoffrey’s first novel whic …
Episode 21Worldbuilding
Hosts Mary Thaler and Geoffrey Edwards talk about how they undertake diverse worldbuilding activities, not just within SF and fantasy but also in historical and contemporary fiction. The claim is that worldbuilding tasks for SF and fantasy constitute a …