well deserved! I try to get all my friends on the ITA train

it's great!

hell yeah

Zach is correct and also this is my biannual reminder to read the works of M. John Harrison, who rocks at this approach.

the replies to this are fantastic and also a testament to how formative the reading years of 12-16 are. for me it's when i first encountered writers like Vonnegut, Le Guin, Baldwin, Ballard, Butler, Moorcock, Murakami... I thank goodness my folks didn't care what I read, just that I was reading

man, Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain is a heady mix (bad)

my partner and I recently picked this up after wanting the physical LP for a long time and the fits were one of the first things we talked about when we put it on for the first time

I've got the Le Guin and Dick LOA volumes and they're super nice, but definitely not "toss in your bag" books haha.

I've been eyeing the LOA edition for awhile but sish there was a good paperback copy available! I'm lucky to have the old Baen paperback versions of both Alyx and The Zanzibar Cat.

one of the best, full stop.

it's been so nice seeing a lot of her novels get reissued, but someone should def put out some of her more neglected short fiction! the fact that there's not an in-print complete Alyx stories collection is bizarre.

def Mariners fans, I'm in Vancouver BC and the love is infectious enough that a lot of people here rep Kraken and Canucks

I've noticed this with other texts, too. I think that for whatever reason, if a book is long, it is a "novel" to many of them.

what a bizarre framework

Loved it! Will be citing this in upcoming dissertation revisions!

I lived in Moscow for 7 years and it tracks that these yahoos are associated with the Logos School (and if they're associated with Logos, they're almost definitely associated with Christ Church and New Saint Andrews—basically christofascists)

he's incredible!

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This is a really important proposal from local food justice organizer Ian Marcuse.

Save Sunrise Food Market!

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watching my favorite christmas movie and what is possibly the great american comedy about class and race

Taiga Syndrome is a book I think about a lot

I'll show you the life of the mind!

today's academic discourse got me feeling like john goodman in barton fink

I think you're right! The closest thing I can think of is Larry McCaffery's intro to Storming the Reality Studio (and that's more of a theoretical piece, too).

yes! worlds collide!

it seems like it's approximating paper foxing, but not quite nailing it?

this sentiment has been on my mind lately

I prefer the French "wokisme"

it's quite good!

as someone writing an ecocritcal dissertation about "sf with weird tendencies" I relate to this very deeply

thank you!