whump.com | More Like This WebLog » denvention3 http://www.whump.com/moreLikeThis Where is their vote? Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:55:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 More “Intelligent Design” in SF: Kenyon’s Bright the Sky http://www.whump.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whump.com%2FmoreLikeThis%2F2008%2F09%2F04%2Fmore-intelligent-design-in-sf-kenyons-bright-the-sky%2F&seed_title=More+%26%238220%3BIntelligent+Design%26%238221%3B+in+SF%3A+Kenyon%26%238217%3Bs+Bright+the+Sky http://www.whump.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whump.com%2FmoreLikeThis%2F2008%2F09%2F04%2Fmore-intelligent-design-in-sf-kenyons-bright-the-sky%2F&seed_title=More+%26%238220%3BIntelligent+Design%26%238221%3B+in+SF%3A+Kenyon%26%238217%3Bs+Bright+the+Sky#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:56:47 +0000 Bill Humphries http://www.whump.com/moreLikeThis/2008/09/04/more-intelligent-design-in-sf-kenyons-bright-the-sky/ Last month, Annalee Newitz wrote a piece for io9.com about recent science fiction that plays with the idea: “what if ‘Intelligent Design’ wasn’t just a stealth marketing gimmick for creationism?”

Here’s another recent novel for Newitz’s list: I bought Kay Keynon’s Bright the Sky while I was at Denvention 3. In it, some god-like aliens have occupied a pocket universe ‘adjacent’ to ours, and populated it with ‘hand made’ replicas of sapient species from our universe, including us. It’s full of the weird, I’m enjoying it, and Cynthia ordered a copy of the sequel.

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Avram Grumer with EMP-proof blog software.

ETA: Holy Mother of Comets! That wasn’t just a notebook: it was a sketchblog!

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Higgins, Humphries, and Stewart

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In fact, if romances are fantasies of love, and mysteries are fantasies of justice, I would now describe much SF as fantasies of political agency.

[via Cynthia Gonsalves]

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Jo Walton holding her Prometheus Award for her novel Ha\'penny.
Photo Credit: Fred Molton

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