My mother just sent this to me...

[charloween]

"Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded by him. Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other over rival interpretations of Star Wars or Windows 98. Could anything -- anything -- be more ridiculous? And yet, this would be no more ridiculous than the world we are living in." -Sam Harris, author (1967- )

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[naturelf.livejournal.com]

My only interaction with Samuel Beckett was through Film (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_%28film%29), which is a pretty dumb name for a movie. Buster Keaton's in it.

Thanks for the recs! I'm going to see if I can grab them from the library. :D

Silver Metal Lover is by Tanith Lee, was written in 1981 and is pretty far away from her **OMG Unicorns!** fantasy books. What I like most about it is how she uses her teenage protagonist to render mundane a world that her readers would find fantastic. Rather than writing about cloud cities and androids (MANDROIDS!) with a sense of reverance or wonder at the awesome possibilities of human achievement in the future, the voice of her protagonist really grounds the narrative.

I could say equally eloquent things about the Lorna Freeman book, but I really need to hustle my bustle out to the streetcar. All you need to know: the protagonist's parents were hippies and they named him Rabbit. But it's set in more-or-less yer typical feudal fantasy world where humans encroach on Magical Beasties' territories and mages happen. Somehow there're still hippies. AH! If I tell too much I'll take away the pleasure of reading the (very dry-humoured) book.

I lived for a while with a roommate who really enjoyed the bad. Movies, tv, books, fic... *shudder*. I can't do that. Luckily she also liked good stuff, too, and had every single Lois McMaster Bujold novel. Win!

Simon R. Green, eh? I've seen the books but I've never cracked one, not yet. Maybe now I will...