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Join Date: Nov 2009
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I've had a love affair with sci-fi going back decades. I always leaned more toward dystopian work (such as Octavia Butler but also Ursula K Le Guin) than anything like Star Wars. Lately, though, because of what is happening in science, I've been thinking about artificial intelligences and wondering what is out there that might be worth a damn.
We who are lovers of science fiction know that virtually every invention of the modern age was written about in some fashion before it came to exist. I want to see what the future will look like through the eyes of the artists whose craft is to write about it.
I want to imagine our own evolution through their eyes and determine whether I truly see it as a dystopian (self-made) disaster or simply another long stretch of epochs stringed together toward the effort in species survival.
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Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside. - Dorothy Allison
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