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Fra Strange Horizons 

Rachel Cordasco
“2023 felt very, very long, for lots of reasons, but it was filled with some wonderful speculative fiction (books and shows). I thoroughly enjoyed the haunting dark fantasy Assassin of Reality by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko (translated from the Russian by Julia Meitov Hersey), in which grammar is magical and can transform reality; the surreal Everything is Ori by Paul Serge Forest (translated from the French by David Warriner), about a new color that can alter human consciousness; and The Kindness by John Ajvide Lindqvist (translated from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy), which imagines a sludge that induces horror and dread in a small Swedish town. And while it was published over a decade ago, I’m in the middle of Sky City: New Science Fiction Stories by Danish Authors, which is just as intriguing and wonderfully varied as any anthology I’ve read in a long time…”

Der findes forskellige omtaler af Sky City, hvor jeg bidrager med “the long arm of history”.

Review: Sky City: New Science Fiction Stories by Danish Authors

 

reading Sky City: New Science Fiction Stories by Danish Authors, edited by Carl-Eddy Skovgaard

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/sky-city-new-science-fiction-stories-by-danish-authors_sfc-science-fiction-cirklen/17943461/#edition=45366732&idiq=40617329

https://www.sfsite.com/10a/sc353.htm

http://stevenhsilver.com/skovgaard.html

https://sfbook.com/sky-city.htm

 

time travel is SO not next year!

Hvad skal vi med tidsrejser længere? Vi skal lære andre ting nu, igen.

“time travel is SO not next year!”

I did a search for this, but nothing.

Just saying: Planes of existence is the next level:

Alternate realities, other dimensions, an infinite multiple of universes branching from free-will overdose to make room for every single one of any other potential full universe that anyone might think of, discarded at the drop of a hat. Planes of existence. Stacked on top of each other, each one their own universe, but each one having less and less need of understanding of its rules.

While time travel by acquaintance with logical and illogical paradoxes can teach us the basics of causality, planes of existence will teach us more about

– being real,
– and about returning to reality,
-and about the cost of distancing apart from the real world we are all fleeing from,
– and about honour taking part in the needs of the real world,
– and dishonour… if you want to stay at an upper plane, as you block your original from… what, waking up…? Continue reading “time travel is SO not next year!”

Toxoplasma gondii og kærlighed til katte

“The Last of Us” er mere end bare en tanke.

Denne snylter findes ofte i katte, og er påvist at styre eks. musen til at finde katteurin attraktiv, så den ikke frygter katten, som derefter får nemt ved at æde den.

Den kan også smitte til mennesker, og det anslås at 1/3 af alle mennesker er smittede. Toxoplasmose udviser muligvis ingen synlige symptomer, men ér der symptomer, kan den nemt behandles med antibiotika. Indtil næste gang man smittes. Katteafføring, jord og ubehandlet kød smittet med toxoplasma gondoii og så hænger man på den igen.

Livscyclus for parasitten Toxoplasma gondii

Det er lige til det klassiske billede på “kattedamen”, der ikke bemærker lugten af katteurin og bare tager flere og flere katte ind, indtil de overvælder hende…

Kvindelige helte i actionfilm

– før og efter Jennifer Lawrence…

Gæsteindlæg fra Hans Henrik Løyche

“Ikke, at jeg har noget dårligt, at sige om skuespillerinden Jennifer Lawrences talent. Hendes præstation i The Hunger Games(2012) er måske så som så (rollen er dog også ret stereotyp), men omvendt syntes jeg bestemt, at hun spillede fremragende i Winter’s Bone (2010). Men for nogle dage siden sagde hun i et interview til Variety’s Actors on Actors, at hun var “the first-ever woman to be cast as the lead of an action movie”, samt en masse vrøvl om, at filmselskaber indtil da ikke havde turdet bruge kvinder i action-hovedroller, fordi mænd ikke kunne identificere sig med dem og derfor ikke gad se filmene. Øh … men nogle må jeg da have set, for af kvinder i action-hovedroller før Jennifer Lawrence kunne jeg lige ihukomme:
Continue reading “Kvindelige helte i actionfilm”

Kim Stanley Robinson på Bloom Festival i Søndermarken, Kbh. 28.5.22

– There IS no Planet B

 

BLOOM FESTIVAL er en efterhånden mangeårig fritænker- og planetpasser-tradition, der udspiller sig i Søndermarken, en have i København på hele Valby Bakke.

Om arrangementet siger BLOOM:

Science fiction er vor tids realisme. For hvordan ser planetens fremtid ud, og hvordan kan science fiction hjælpe os med at gentænke natur, økologi og klima?

Den verdensberømte science fiction-forfatter Kim Stanley Robinson fortæller om sit forfatterskab.” 

[ Og ikke mindst Ministry For The Future, som da for pokker snart må blive oversat til dansk. ]

Scene: Summer

Lørdag 28.05, 15.30-16.15

https://www.bloom.ooo/program/there-is-no-planet-b

BLOOM FESTIVAL’s program

https://www.bloom.ooo/program/?dag=1

Time Travel definition in fiction

– what to look for

 

This is my guide for my Time Travel Movie list – things to consider, when digging up titles.

NB: Be aware of plot-spoilers in method and tags – let people mess up their own viewing pleasure via imdb and RT.

PERSPECTIVE

Who is the POV of the story?
Evaluation of the Time Travel theme lies with this view.

Time Travel is a matter of perspective:
Who or what leaves the orderly progression of events, and who is visited by persons, data or objects of a later or earlier data?

Life lived out of sync
with everything else from the perspective of the observing eye – either ageing faster or slower in relative measurement.

HOW:

Entropic decay of bio-matter will co-exist with matter either younger or older life in relative terms calculated from the assumed beginning of the present cosmological expansion. Continue reading “Time Travel definition in fiction”

A great story INSIDE a not so great film

-2022

I was instantly reminded of Bladerunner, and I see many references to it in the images, the tone, the setting, the music – all without the facade of larger-than-life storytelling causing the dream state that makes Bladerunner iconic.

LOVELAND or EXPIRED (a bad title, because it is neither fully correct nor a genuine mis-lead) consists of the grit of reality, even if a bit into the future – not social realism, just the unwavering loss of hope, the emptiness of existence, in the big city or simply among other people. In this sense it is almost merciless – the only redemption that which is given freely from one human to another, posing as the singular meaning of life. And then even that is taken away. Maybe. Possibly, Unclear

I can’t really feel it. Wish I could.

The problem is not exactly the acting, or the lighting, or the directing. It’s the voice-over, or rather the dramatic necessity of the voice-over. However similar to the 1st theatrical version of Bladerunner, which worked to ease the audience into what was seen as a dark story, to lighten the mood in the tone of snub-nosed detectives of the 1930s – but LOVELAND without the voice-over would simply not work. There would be no heart, because that text causes our lead to be human – except that the voice-over monologue describes a character COMPLETELY different from the one of the lead – as the filmed lead never says or hints at brain activity at a level of poetry approaching that of the voice-over. Unfortunately and incredible.

I do however love the theme. How a person can literally adapt to a life without feeling, because their hormonal cause of deep emotion is taken from them, and then – if attraction causes them to produce these hormones again – begin to die. But even if the TAKE on the old story of the price of falling in love is actually quite good, it overstays its welcome – as if the director does not trust his audience with the material. Yet another script treatment – possibly to integrate the voice-over – would have made it a greater story and possibly a GREAT film.

And what happened to Hugo Weaving? That was abuse of an interesting role as well as actor. Nasty to just turn a good actor into function. And worse if it happens in the cutting room.

I would love to give it a 10.

But I have to give it 6.4. And if I think more about it, that grade will drop further. But it IS a good story – inside all of the noise, the pretentiousness, the director’s fear, the length without real payoff, as I am left to imagine what kind of film it COULD HAVE BEEN.

[where to watch]