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skip to main | skip to sidebar This blog comments on a variety of technology news, trends, and products and how they connect. I'm in Red Hat's cloud product strategy group in my day job although I cover a broader set of topics here. This is a personal blog; the opinions are mine alone. Sunday, October 25, 2020 This is an update to 50 authors, 50 science fiction stories shorter than novels. It's mostly an addition of 30 more authors (many from outside the "big SF names") but I also made some other tweaks.  I've been playing around with re-reading favorite science fiction short stories ...

Doctor Who; Spock from Star Trek; the Crystal Gems in Steven Universe; Valkyrie, Gamora, and Nebula from the Marvel Cinematic Universe … our most beloved characters often come from other worlds, even if they’re recognizably played by human actors. Alien characters don’t just entertain us with their strange and unfamiliar ways — they also reflect our humanity back to us. Science fiction is all about exploring what it means to be human, and we can do that more easily by comparing ourselves against the alien characters we love or hate. This works a couple of different ways for writers:...

Star Wars to Buffy the Vampire Slayer (not to mention the famous book series that I’m never mentioning again.) One solitary hero faces up to a massive destiny, along with a handful of supporting characters who hang back, do research, and obsess about the hero. The appeal of this sort of story is easy to see: we all want to imagine being powerful, singled out for great things—and able to actually do something about huge, intractable problems that threaten our entire world. Most of the time in real life, we all feel helpless in the face of the massive systemic problems that are slowly ki...

Credit: HBO Game of Thrones’ premiere on April 17, 2011. I can still remember when Thrones reigned over pop culture, and I used to spend my Sunday nights staying up until two in the morning trying to craft the perfect recap of each episode. I kind of agree with the many people who have said Game of Thrones was the last television show to dominate the conversation, before everything became fragmented into a hundred streaming services and countless niche options. Like a few other pop-culture behemoths, Game of Thrones cast a huge shadow and spawned many would-be imitators. The Marvel Cinem...

In the aftermath of A Kingdom for a Stage, everything is at stake. Jetta’s homeland, colonized by outsiders years ago, is on the brink of a civil war, and her nemesis, Le Trépas, wants to take control for his own nefarious purposes. Her ability to bind souls to objects will go up against his dangerous blood magic, but she has something he doesn’t: friends and allies. The Theft of Sunlight by Intisar Khanani (Dauntless Path #2)—March 23, 2021; HarperTeen This standalone companion to Thorn, centers on Amraeya ni Ansarim, aka Rae, a young woman from the village of Sheltershorn. Being bo...