Category: Spec Fic
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Anarchist, Ahoy!
Three books about the price of revolution. All fiction is metaphor. Science fiction is metaphor. What sets it apart from older forms of fiction seems to be its use of new metaphors, drawn from certain great dominants of our contemporary life: science, all the sciences, and technology, and the relativistic and historical outlook, among them.…
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Lost Ended (praise the lord).
Short Version: Jack Shephard had daddy issues. The boy in black had mommy issues. Go figure. Longer Version The great thing about Lost was its ensemble. Even conceding the mythology was complex for a television show- if you’ve spent your life steeped in spec-fic, well, *shrug*. The science was wonky, the fantasy clunky. The only…