Posts tagged Hannu Rajaniemi
Cameron's Book Round-Up: Fall, part 2
Cameron's Book Round-Up: Fall, part 2

I’m really tired, so I’m just going to get into this. These books are good, but it’s November, and I’m a teacher. November is hell month.

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Book reviews, Written by: CameronCameron SummersJoe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred, The Trouble With Peace, The Wisdom of Crowds, The Locked Tomb trilogy, Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, Charles Stross, The Laundry Files, Escape From Yokai Land, The Delirium Brief, The Labyrinth INdex, Dead Lies Dreaming, James S.A. Corey, The Expanse, Leviathan Falls, A Lush and Seething Hell, John Horner Jacobs, Hannu Rajaniemi, Jean le Flambeur, The Causal Angel, Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories, Iain M. Banks, Iain Banks, Consider Phlebas Comment
Cameron's Book Round-Up, Closing Out the Summer
Cameron's Book Round-Up, Closing Out the Summer

I think I let this get too long. Blame the summer heat for making me lazy and stupid.

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Book reviews, Written by: CameronCameron SummersCharles Stross, The Laundry Files, The King In Yellow, Robert W. Chambers, P. Djèlí Clark, A Dead Djinn in Cairo, The Fuller Memorandum, The Haunting of Tram CAr 015, The End of Policing, Alex S. Vitale, After Dark, Haruki Murakami, Culture Warlords, Talia Lavin, Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler, Appleseed, Matt Bell, the Quantum Thief, Hannu Rajaniemi, Entangled Life, The Fractal Prince, Peter Watts, Blindsight, Dreams of Shreds and Tatters, Amanda Downum, John Dies at the End, Jason Pargin/David Wong, The Apocalypse Codex, World Without Mind, Franklin Foer, The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Heroes, Joe Abercrombie, The Rhesus Chart, The Annihilation Score Comment
The Collapse of Possibility: The Problem of Aesthetics and Ontology in Science Fiction
The Collapse of Possibility: The Problem of Aesthetics and Ontology in Science Fiction

But all of this is beside the point: the fact that we can pick out two dominant aesthetics in the visual media form of what is supposed to be a “literature of ideas” is a problem. It indicates, if anything, a lack of ideas. If our options are just a visual vocabulary iteration of the old Star Wars vs. Star Trek debate that no one but the people having it are interested in, we've got problems.

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Analysis, Political, Written by: CameronCameron SummersScience Fiction, aesthetics, Philosophy, cyberpunk, The Expanse, Blade Runner, Altered Carbon, Hannu Rajaniemi, The Quantum Thief, Too Like the Lightning, Ada Palmer, Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light, Virgil Ortiz, Native Futurism, Black Panther, Afro-Futurism, Star Trek, Gravity (2013), Star Wars, Used Future, Jobsian Minimalism, Transhumanism, Mind Uploading, Peter Frase, Four Futures, CyberpunkComment