http://www.vylarkaftan.net writer of science fiction & fantasy Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:21:34 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.vylarkaftan.net/bibliography/2007/civilization/comment-page-1/#comment-4137 Brave New Worlds « There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:50:10 +0000 http://www.vylarkaftan.net/?page_id=710#comment-4137 [...] I don’t really want to go into detail with every story; I’ll just add a couple more favorites: Joseph Paul Haines’s Ten with a flag & Philip K. Dick’s Minority Report (both dealing with the circular complications of knowing and influencing the future); Alex Irvine’s Peter Skilling (almost a farce – where a man is brought back to life after 100 years only to be killed again in the same day for failing to comply with the new order); Ray Bradbury’s The Pedestrian (echoing the beginning of Fahrenheit 415); Robert Silverberg’s Caught in the organ draft (more of a meditation on how the old prey on the young than anything else) and Vylar Kaftan’s choose your own Civilization. [...] [...] I don’t really want to go into detail with every story; I’ll just add a couple more favorites: Joseph Paul Haines’s Ten with a flag & Philip K. Dick’s Minority Report (both dealing with the circular complications of knowing and influencing the future); Alex Irvine’s Peter Skilling (almost a farce – where a man is brought back to life after 100 years only to be killed again in the same day for failing to comply with the new order); Ray Bradbury’s The Pedestrian (echoing the beginning of Fahrenheit 415); Robert Silverberg’s Caught in the organ draft (more of a meditation on how the old prey on the young than anything else) and Vylar Kaftan’s choose your own Civilization. [...]

]]> http://www.vylarkaftan.net/bibliography/2007/civilization/comment-page-1/#comment-3568 Vylar Kaftan » Diversity statistics: a follow-up Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:51:33 +0000 http://www.vylarkaftan.net/?page_id=710#comment-3568 [...] kick the enemies of the State in the street, like Rockettes in steel-toed boots. —from “Civilization” in Glorifying Terrorism (2007)", "Blank Sexzra is a superhero with a cape no one can see. [...] [...] kick the enemies of the State in the street, like Rockettes in steel-toed boots. —from “Civilization” in Glorifying Terrorism (2007)”, “Blank Sexzra is a superhero with a cape no one can see. [...]

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