Posts Tagged ‘ficțiune speculativă’
Recitiri în Iarnă. Explorând genul în Gethen cu Ursula K Le Guin
Atunci mi-am amintit de „Mâna stângă a întunericului” de Ursula K. Le Guin, un roman care se petrece în întregime pe Gethen, o planetă zisă și Iarnă. Acolo, un trimis al Ecumenului, Genly Ai, are sarcina de a convinge suveranii națiunilor de a se alătura ligii umanității.
„Mâna stângă a întunericului” e volumul care m-a făcut să mă îndrăgostesc iremediabil de ficțiunea speculativă.
Read MoreA year of reading – Reviewing 2024. Books as companions
In 2024 I’ve wanted to read more books from around the world, and I failed. I read a lot instead (more than a 100 is a lot for me), and a lot of good science-fiction. So this list is
Read MoreDark & Cold Water Worlds – The Deep & Blackfish City
I’m still softened by just having finished “The Deep” by Rivers Solomon, listening to Drexciya and trying to gather my thoughts, waving like seagrass. Just a few days ago I also finished “Blackfish City” by Sam J. Miller, which is why I’m writing about both of them now, still fresh in my mind. They both embody worlds of water, one colder than the other.
Read More10 speculative fictions I read and loved in 2023
Because I love lists & speculative fiction & remembering what I thought about what I read, I’m making this one – it has no order except kind-of-a-chronological order? And it contains a bit of cheating because the last two I finished in 2024 and
Read MoreA vegan view of Yellowjackets – Meat, Power and Belief
From the very start, we know where the show is heading, and we are left to answer the question of “How”. Just like in other tales, fictional or real, about cannibalism, it is the most interesting question: how did they get there? Below, I’ll unfold some of my thoughts on the symbolism of “meat” in Yellowjackets.
Read MoreJourneying through “How High We Go In the Dark” – a constellation of mourning
One could even say this book is a study of mourning, an ode to life with its sticky closeness to an ever-coming end.
Read More3% – The Cult of Meritocracy and Imagining Otherwise
The first season (…) builds up to show us meritocracy is a lie – a cunning, deep lie, made to re-affirm those in power to everyone, including themselves.
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