Alvaro Zinos-Amaro: What It Is We Do

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Iris Murdoch // The interplay of thought and imagination is far superior to that of muscle and sinew. - Isaac Asimov // The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. - Emily Dickinson // A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. - Lao Tzu // Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will. - Friedrich Nietzsche // The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. - Francis Bacon // Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. - Soren Kierkegaard // The possible ranks higher than the actual. - Martin Heidegger //

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

What It Is We Do

This new book by Beccon Publications, What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction, has got "fascinating" written all over it. Go Paul Kincaid.

Ditto this recent release: Year Million: Science at the Far Edge of Knowledge. Go Damien Broderick.

And this one-month-less-new-than-the-previous-recent book: Rhetorics of Fantasy. Go Farah Mendlesohn. And go John Clute, for writing this review of it, available via Strange Horizons.

Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

What It Is We Do

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