rivkat: Dean reading (dean reading)
( Mar. 22nd, 2020 01:09 pm)
How's your social distancing going?

Matt Stoller, Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracyhow the bad guys win )

Joanne Elizabeth Gray, Google Rules: The History and Future of Copyright Under the Influence of Googlecurrent copyright )
Andrew Marantz, Anti-Social: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversationyou're why everything is terrible )
Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley: A MemoirNo, these guys are why everything is terrible )
Bill Schutt, Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural Historymuch more upbeat, really )
Jodie Adams Kirshner, Broke: Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken PromisesDetroit )
Leo Marks, Between Silk and Cyanidebureaucratic infighting, life and death )
A.K. Sandoval-Strausz, Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American Cityhow immigrants saved America again )

Lisa Olstein, Pain Studiesa poet writes about migraine and House )
Megen De Bruin-Molé, Gothic Remixed: Monster Mashups and Frankenfictions in 21st-Century Cultureeh )
Vid for me! Murdering Stravinsky, Farscape, lithiumdoll: YouTube, AO3

Look, ever since I realized that “dressing up as fascists” was perfect for this fandom, I’ve wanted this vid, and LithiumDoll does it great justice. The internal motion and even internal lighting changes are perfect for the disorientation and cruelty of the song. And there’s so many canonical references that are perfect—all the things they do that hurt others, and each other, by meaning to or by meaning to be good or both. The nuclear bomb and the beautiful, horrible wormhole equations that represent both art and death.

A very good bad review of a Netflix animated sff series, Love, Death and Robots.

Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Bluepolitical romance )

KJ Charles, Proper Englishf/f in high society )

Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empirepalace intrigue with colonialism )

Seanan McGuire, Middlegameit's a chess metaphor )
Laurie Marks, Earth Logicwinning the peace )

John Birmingham, The Cruel Starsmilitary sf, mostly )

Robert Jackson Bennett, mid-colonialist fantasy ) 

Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dreammore wayward children )
Ted Chiang, Exhalationthe best kind of sf )

Rebecca Roanhorse, Storm of Locustsmonsterkiller on the road )

Theodore Sturgeon, Microcosmic God, vol. 2 of the complete stories:misanthropy/misogyny )

Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden WishAladdin! )
Subject line from "Your Pearly Whites," by These Arms Are Snakes. Cool line. Another good one in my recent playlist: "Carved your name/across my eyelids/You pray for rain/I pray for blindness," from "Crown of Love" by The Arcade Fire. Also, for Tori Amos fans, check out Michelle Cross, who has an album's worth of mp3s for free download at her site. My favorites: "Cold Light," "Cinderella," and "Sushi Queen."

Before the books, I need to ask for help: I need beta readers/viewers for (a) what I'm pretty sure is the most pornographic story I've ever written, SV of course, about 25 pages, futurefic/AU; (b) a SV vid, sadly not pornographic in the slightest; and (c) a Buffy vid, which I suppose marks my switch from SV fan who vids to vidder. Let me know here or drop a note to RivkaT at aol if you're interested.

David Gerrold, Jim Butcher, Orson Scott Card, Year's Best SF, Laurie Marks, John Ridley )
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