Have u read her books? I am right now & im absolutely amazed, so i contacted her agent: i wanna interview her for my small SF blog:
If u love her & have good questions to ask her, please answer in the comments.
& now Ill rest and will just enjoy reading Becky Chambers.
Unfortunately, I contacted her agent 5 days ago. I recontacted him twice since, no answer.
That’s life, but I mean, Doctorow agreed & Watts too. Without mailing an agent. These guys, anybody can email them & get an answer.
Since shes lefty, she’s not on X, so I have no other idea.
I’ll wait, & if it’s a big nope Ill still write a post on her, I think.
—> Does someone here knowns a hopepunk/solarpunk peep that writes short stories or novellas?
—> & Take care.
Edit: undersood, there are a crapton good solarpunk authors that writes short texts. Its just that its totally new for me.
Plz explain the downvote.
Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. (JC)
Or the way i see it:
Everyone always thinks they are doing the right thing, even when they’re wrong.
If u don’t answer, u’re not brave like trans chicks, u ain’t got no balls.
Work’s done, disconnecting.
Going fallow
You probably know someone who believes that they need to be doing something all the time. Someone on the productivity treadmill. Someone who suffers from something I call the idle hands syndrome — as in The Devil makes work for …
On top of that, people keep repeating (ad nauseaum) the idea that the brain is a muscle that must be continually exercised. It’s an interesting idea, and one that has truth to it. To a point. Any muscle that you exercise needs to rest after it’s been exerted. That includes the brain.
You need to go fallow once in a while. Doing that lets your brain cool down, if you will. And, more importantly, it moves much of the processing of thoughts and ideas from the active front of the brain to the back of the brain.
One of my personal heroes is physicist Freeman Dyson1. Dyson was a unique character, who did a lot of interesting work over the decades — ranging from helping design an interplanetary spacecraft to doing some groundbreaking mathematical work to coming up with a number of interesting scientific concepts. But it was a story about a bus ride that Dyson recounted to the author of the book The Starship and the Canoe that demonstrated the power of going fallow. At the time of the story, Dyson was a graduate student working at Princeton University. He was trying to solve a particularly thorny theoretical problem, but was having no luck. During a school break, he decided to take a cross-country bus trip. During that trip, Dyson was concerned more with the his journey and the ever-changing scenery than with the problem that vexed him. At the end of the trip, guess what happened? The solution that Dyson had been so desperately seeking came to him.
You might not have a eureka moment like Freeman Dyson’s. You might not come up with a solution that will change … whatever. But by going fallow for a short time, you’ll give your brain a break. That just might help you see pieces of a problem a bit more clearly.
Scott Nesbitt
SORRY FOR YESTERDAY!
So many peeps give great insights here & elsewhere on Lemmy. So, if for some reason she refuses the itw (which would b a dumb move, but peeps always believe they’re doing the right thing, wrongfully sometimes), ill wrote a blogpost on her. There are a lot of stuff to say on the subject.
But im pretty sure shell accept.
Just have to wait a few days.
I’ll keep u updated, guys & chicks w/ & without dicks.
God bless. Amen!
Excelsior!
I feel the need to share this vid’ with her. The man’s definitely right. Nobody succesfully refuted him during many decades.
Hayek on Socialism
https://youtu.be/CNbYdbf3EEc?is=OisFM81g5k3ApqLJ
And i mean, he desired to be a socialist.
PLUS
Send this to ur libertarian buddies to see how they react:
F. A. Hayek on social insurance
https://pnhp.org/news/f-a-hayek-on-social-insurance/
Here again, im with Hayek.
But libertarians aren’t open minded.
I think Becky’s political/economical ideas are possible in very small communities. Just like communism & anarco-capitalism lol.
yeah, except for the larger communities where it did and does still work, such as the zapatistas, rojava or catalonia. i think the issue is much less scalability and more propaganda and repressions against more egalitarian systems.
The main thing is spontaneous order.
Didn’t know about that. Im pretty surprisef tbh. Will read about it, TY.
Hijacking your own thread is new, I give you that 🤷
Permanent hijacking was the only way to connect w/ Adedapo.
Ah. A new thing right?
Well its how i usually proceed.
I dont understand ur post…
Hijacking again.
I feel the need to share this vid’ with her.
Do i?
Im not brainwashed neither close-minded. The group that have my political views, there is only myself in it lol).
I feel the need to, even if its not cozy.
And this, men & chicks w/ or without dicks (it takes balls to be a trans woman - SFSS & Trans wrongs! - Anonymous), this is a total masterpiece:
Volume 1
https://www.amazon.fr/Law-Legislation-Liberty-statement-principles-ebook/dp/B0B837R5SS
Volume 2
https://www.amazon.fr/Law-Legislation-Liberty-Mirage-Justice-ebook/dp/B009GJM55E
Volume 3
https://www.amazon.fr/Law-Legislation-Liberty-Political-English-ebook/dp/B009GJQEB0
Hayek have studied law during 20 years, and it shows in this gigantic book.
I’ve studied law at uni, & later i studied natural law by myself during 20 years (VAST subject, there are around 300 or 400 books on the subject). I strongly believe Hayek’s theory of law belongs to the natural law category. But not everyone agrees w/ me.
I could speak for weeks about it, but not w/ Becky. Im pretty sure she knows next to nothing about that, which is perfectly fine, its a turbo-nerd thing.
However, i strongly recommend this book to all of u.
And yes its no SF, but no need to care about this. Just taking a detour, because its important & ive studied natural law for a long-ass time. And even now i learn something new about it everyday.
Its a rabbit-hole, just like sci-fi, but worse: its complex af, and their are many many schools.
AND
Its not only a hobby. Natural law must lives. Positivists have absolutely nothing in their toolbox to criticize nazi laws.
OK. Ive said what i have to say. Ur free to dive in or ignore it. Follow ur curiosity.
Did she have some particular inspiration for her monk and robot tale ? Also concerning the “no money system” in this story, did she get her inspiration from real systems or economical theories ?
Excellent questions, TY!
I wonder if she plans to get back into writing “real” Sci-fi some more. The Monk and Robot series is nice, but IMHO the Wayfarer series was better. Maybe something based on earth in the not that far far future would be cool as well?
My favorite book of hers is “Record of a Spaceborn Few” 👍
Well rn im reading The Monk and Robot series. Im an anxious guy and it appeases me. Idc if its not real SF.
It is not a bad series by all means, but imagine the robot being a golem and nothing else changed… it really is more of a fantasy book IMHO.
True. But i really dont care. I care about good books. I have GAD - general anxiety disorders - and during 20 years, i treated it alone with heroin, crack, weird russian meds etc.
Now im sober, i do a lot of sport, méditation & cold showers.
And rn im reading this book, and it feels like natural valium to me: that’s amazing! Thank God for that.
I love Peter Watts, but damn, reading him at night is a whole différent expérience. Same for PKD & Lovecraft.
I have read the first book of the Wayfarer series and I am at the 1/4 of the second book. I don’t have questions but I do love her writings. The story is interesting, the writing is clearly and it feels good and relaxing to read her stories in our mad and depressing world. All I’d want to say is “thank you so much”
Man, i hope she accepts the itw.
Yeah! 100% agreed.
