When a plague wipes out most of the world’s male population and civilization crumbles, women struggle to build an agrarian community in the English countryside.
Paolo Bacigalupi's speculative fiction novel, The Windup Girl (which I teach in my Dystopian fiction class), is set in Bangkok, Thailand, where global warming and sea-level rise has caused the city to erect a massive seawall holding the rising waters back.
This novel was published a mere 14 years ago.
📘 📚 📖 #Dystopia #Dystopian #literature
Remember Senator Katie Britt, who delivered that bizarre, melodramatic televised response to Biden's 2024 State of the Union address? The one with the creepy 'baby-fundie" voice'?
She's introduced a bill to create a federal website to collect data on pregnant people.
"… The bill would also allow government officials to reach out to users for additional information."
"Although I'm no longer with you in person, my darling, I love you so much. I remember the day we met as clearly as if... You can now make purchases in Bitcoin; visit our storefront now... it were yesterday. The yellow dress you wore was so... Get 10% off the new Apple iPad. Say 'PADOFFER' after this memory..." #AI#dystopia
I am very very proud and excited to share the news (with some delay that is)! This is the very first time that a #comic of mine gets out to the public! My very first commission too, so this issue holds a very special place in my heart!
Without further ado I present you Fodongo Issue 6 a #webcomics#zine with 3 more artists with excellent comics for your own pleasure (including it's own creator @jectoons )
Two things to note if you decide to buy it: first, you actually directly support the artists that contributed to this issue and second, you support #freeculture and #openculture in art which is really needed in current times, imo anyway.
I've finished: The Sky is Your's by Chandler Klang Smith.
My first attempt to read The Sky is Yours ended with me throwing it in the Audible App's archive. It starts with a rich brat crashing on a garbage island and immediately taking advantage of a naïve girl. I wanted nothing to do with it.
I forgot about it and when I encountered the title again, I gave it a listen. When you continue reading, you understand that his is a satire about late stage capitalism and no one likes the rich brat.
As we follow the three main characters, the afore mentioned rich brat, a naïve girl raised alone by an insane mother with anti-technology beliefs and my favorite, Swani a rich well educated and over achieving girl. We learn more and more about the corrupt world they are inheriting.
This is a mix of stupidity, and smarts. Some parts are dumb on purpose and some are dumb for comedic effect. Some parts are smart and some downright poetic. Each of our protagonists will find a mentor that will help them grow, but they are not being cuddled and their paths are winding. Again, I was impressed with Swany's journey.
Swany is also overweight, I'm not saying it's never referred to as unattractive, but men are attracted to her both physically and intellectually.
The ending detracted a bit from my rating, as we step back from the interesting characters and take a more distant view of the aftermath.
“The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. At 200 terawatt hours annually, data centers collectively devour more energy than some nation-states.”
@parismarx
Well that's fine.
We've made "machine that would go of itself" and we'll sit outside the windowless buildings and see what it does with all of our power, and water too #dystopia#chaos#future
How ‘Blade Runner’ and Sci-Fi Made Everything Dystopian
"Science fiction, especially Blade Runner, has spawned so many dystopias that dystopia itself has become banal. We need a new utopianism that embraces the city"
"Science fiction informs the future... Yet most of the science fiction I see today is apocalyptic. As an indigenous person, I don’t relate to these narratives, as my people have already survived an apocalypse"
The Realism Of Our Times: Kim Stanley Robinson On How Science Fiction Works
"We’re all science fiction writers...world civilization right now is teetering on the brink: Science fiction is the realism of our time. Utopia and dystopia are both possible, and both staring us in the face."
(Kim Stanley Robinson)