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SFF blogger at SciFiMind.com, former mental health blogger at StoriedMind.com, author of 3 books on depression recovery - aspiring SFF writer of shorter things, former environmental mediator, dog-lover (esp Aussies) and life-long Democrat, he/him
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Hail St Haley's review of One Battle After Another

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Film Review: One Battle After Another
Paul Thomas Anderson has made an absolute masterpiece about rebellion, standing up to power, and hope. I went into One Battle After Another...
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October 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
For SF from 1956 The Stars My Destination is quite amazing.

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The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
Alfred Bester wrote two important science fiction novels in the 1950s - The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination. While I have some reservations
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October 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Why is every Democratic Governor not standing with him & saying this in unison?

Next step they publicly call on every Repub governor to join them in denouncing the regime's blatant authoritarianism. Sure Repubs won't join but it's how you shift the narrative!

Why are Dems so bad at politics!? 🤯
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Sep 29
Priztker: if federal agents fired upon journalists and protesters, when unprovoked, what would we call it? 

I don't think we'd have any trouble calling it what it is. Authoritarianism. 

So let's not pretend it's something else when it happens in our American cities.
September 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Another masterpiece from Ray Nayler: Where the Axe Is Buried

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Where the Axe Is Buried by Ray Nayler
Ray Nayler’s haunting novel, Where the Axe Is Buried, draws us into a dystopian world governed in most countries by AIs, and in one Federation, by a
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September 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Rough month re health, except for a great family visit and seeing an unforgettable staging of Cabaret at the Guthrie - and reading Elizabeth Bear's The Folded Sky - which I really liked:

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The Folded Sky (White Space Book 3) by Elizabeth Bear
Elizabeth Bear’s The Folded Sky, the third novel in her White Space series, tells a stand-alone story, full of grand space opera tropes, including
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August 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A classic that would be great if not for the bizarre ideas about women and psychology: Bester's The Demolished Man

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The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
In 1953 Alfred Bester won the first Hugo award for his novel, The Demolished Man. It’s easy to see why. This is a fast-paced story in an interesting
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July 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Great review - celebrating Superman &co for the right reasons

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Film Review: Superman (2025)
Who knew you could laugh during a Superman movie? After the long night of the Snyderverse, the new Superman  feels like a much-needed palate...
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July 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Mohamed Kheir's Sleep Phase is a beautiful short novel in an excellent translation - even more interesting than his story collection Slipping.
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Sleep Phase by Mohamed Kheir, Translated by Robin Moger
Mohamed Kheir’s Sleep Phase, beautifully translated by Robin Moger (who also translated Kheir's story collection, Slipping) brought to mind related
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July 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
My favorite in a series covering each episode in season 2 of Andor
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Rebellions Are Built on Hope: Andor S2E10
In season two, I never expected to become such a fan of Luthen and Kleya. In some ways, episode nine is the end of Andor season two in that...
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July 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I grew up with the Cold War brainwashing and nuclear dread these films depict and saw many of them when they came out - they're worth taking a look at for the reasons this good article describes - in many ways we're back there, only worse.

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Atomic Age Anxiety: Why 1950s Sci-Fi B-Movies Still Matter Today
The 1950s were steeped in Cold War paranoia, nuclear dread, and a dawning awareness that human progress could be as destructive as it was miraculous. While A-list sci-fi films like The Day the Earth S...
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July 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Another great installment in the Mossa and Pleiti series by Malka Older:

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The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses by Malka Older
Malka Older, activist, scholar, teacher, international humanitarian worker and author of The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses is one of my culture heroes
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June 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Great article on post-Jules Verne French science fiction that I had never heard of before.

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How French ‘merveilleux-scientifique’ fiction reframed reality | Aeon Essays
With brain swaps and death rays, a little-known French sci-fi genre explored science’s dark possibilities a century ago
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June 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Malka Older, one of my culture heroes, has a new book in the Mossa and Pleiti sci-fi mystery series - The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses. I'm working on a review. Anyone else read it yet? What did you think?
June 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Excellent essay on Andor and Star Wars generally. I agree that Andor is a masterpiece, even if it were taken out of its SW context.

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Andor and the Reimagining of Star Wars
Star Wars, as a franchise, is almost 50 years old. It remains extraordinarily popular - as much or more than any other cinematic universe. A...
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June 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I'm looking for books like Tchaikovsky's Alien Clay and Shroud that describe both sides of a first contact situation and explore an emerging relationship between the two rather than conflict - any ideas?

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May 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Interesting film review of King Tide - a film I hadn't heard of before - about a miracle girl who can heal and the effect she has over time on a small village.

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Film Review: The King Tide
What if we were really nice to the kid in Omelas? Life has proceeded uneventfully on a secluded island of fishermen, somewhere in Canada, fo...
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May 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Thinking of the desert as a kind of ocean for Wyrd and Wonder? - here's a review of Nnedi Okorafor's She Who Knows

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She Who Knows and One Way Witch by Nnedi Okorafor #Wyrd&Wonder
She Who Knows and One Way Witch are the first two novellas in Nnedi Okorafor’s She Who Knows trilogy. This series, in turn, is part of her larger
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May 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
This is my first Adam Roberts novel, and I'm hooked enough to go back through his output. Any recommendations? Here's my review of Lake of Darkness:

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Lake of Darkness by Adam Roberts
Adam Roberts’ Lake of Darkness is an absorbing story of utopia and evil in a space opera drama that spans multiple worlds, all of which enjoy a
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May 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Here's an interesting take on putting together an alien world and language:

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Writing a Social Insect Civilization | Centauri Dreams
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May 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Anyone have thoughts about Okorafor's Death of the Author?
Here's my review:

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Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
Death of the Author marks the second time (the first being Who Fears Death) Nnedi Okorafor has led me through a reading experience that felt interesting
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April 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Nicholas Binge's Dissolution is a strong sci-fi thriller with great observation of human relationships, aging and memory

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Dissolution by Nicholas Binge
At its core, Dissolution by Nicholas Binge is a love story about a fiercely determined 83 year-old woman who is trying to recapture the memory and hence
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April 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Has anyone read Dissolution by Nicholas Binge? I've just started and not sure I want to finish - it's good and insightful about people but is it SF enough?
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March 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
An important article about getting off psychotropic medications:

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Leading a Movement Away From Psychiatric Medication
Laura Delano walked away from the treatments that defined her teens and 20s. Now, she’s hoping to create a road map for others to follow.
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March 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Reading this fine review of Mickey 17

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Film Review: Mickey 17
The human being in the age of its mechanical reproducibility I've already written on this blog about the questions, both abstract and pract...
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March 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Reading about these incredible trees trying to survive in our world:

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Exploring the Four Rarest Trees on Earth | Moss and Fog
We've gathered a list of four of the rarest trees on the planet.
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March 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM