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Jun. 24th, 2012 13:13What do you expect your country to be like in 2062?
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Jun. 24th, 2012 16:08Thursday June 21, 2012. Nick Mamatas (ed.) The Future Is Japanese; reserved from library. Thirteen stories; eight by Americans (one a Russian immigrant), the rest by Japanese.
Missing: the rest of the world. I would like to see Japan-set sf from writers elsewhere in Asia. And from Europe, Africa, etc.
***Minnesota Daily, Wednesday: Drunk bike riding is legal in Minnesota.
***Books on hold picked up from Walker Library included Hartwell & Cramer (ed.), Year's Best SF 17. Highly recommended: Yoon Ha Lee, "A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel." Recommended: Ken MacLeod, "The Best Science Fiction of the Year Three."
Evaluating my evaluation: "The Golden Age of Science Fiction is twelve." Younger, in my case; I've been reading sf magazines since 1953, books earlier, comics still earlier. The good of this is, I'm likely to know if a Wonderful New Idea has been done before. (Example: China Mieville, The City and the City, 2009; Gordon R. Dickson, Delusion World, 1961.) The bad is, I'm somewhat jaded.
***At the Linden Hills Dunn Brothers, I ordered tea. They gave me iced tea, which wasn't what I wanted.
Later, I realized that even a few years ago, I would have been annoyed by this.
***Took in a bit of Linden Hills Live (a small neighborhood festival.) What the band I caught was playing sounded almost like music.
***Adult Children Anonymous meeting.
Missing: the rest of the world. I would like to see Japan-set sf from writers elsewhere in Asia. And from Europe, Africa, etc.
***Minnesota Daily, Wednesday: Drunk bike riding is legal in Minnesota.
***Books on hold picked up from Walker Library included Hartwell & Cramer (ed.), Year's Best SF 17. Highly recommended: Yoon Ha Lee, "A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel." Recommended: Ken MacLeod, "The Best Science Fiction of the Year Three."
Evaluating my evaluation: "The Golden Age of Science Fiction is twelve." Younger, in my case; I've been reading sf magazines since 1953, books earlier, comics still earlier. The good of this is, I'm likely to know if a Wonderful New Idea has been done before. (Example: China Mieville, The City and the City, 2009; Gordon R. Dickson, Delusion World, 1961.) The bad is, I'm somewhat jaded.
***At the Linden Hills Dunn Brothers, I ordered tea. They gave me iced tea, which wasn't what I wanted.
Later, I realized that even a few years ago, I would have been annoyed by this.
***Took in a bit of Linden Hills Live (a small neighborhood festival.) What the band I caught was playing sounded almost like music.
***Adult Children Anonymous meeting.