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Sci-Fi
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En español: Let’s reclaim sci-fi from the billionaires
Las mentiras de la ciencia ficción capitalista La novela de ciencia ficción Snow Crash (1992) de Neil Stephenson anticipó un futuro de ciudades ultraprecarias gobernadas por grandes corporaciones, planteó la expansión de un potente cibervirus y, sobre todo, desarrolló la idea de metaverso como realidad virtual. Poco después de su publicación, varias empresas de Silicon […]
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Plain Spoken: Iowa’s conservative despots police the power of song-flight in this 1979 sci-fi fantasia
When you crack open a ’70s sci-fi/fantasy paperback like On Wings of Song, you expect to slip into a world wholly unlike your own. For an Iowan living through Inauguration Week 2025, this particular novel isn’t too much of an escape — and not just because it’s set in Iowa and penned by a Des […]
