DC’s 2024 Black History Month anthology, DC Power, will arrive in stores on Jan. 30 and will feature a new story by N.K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell, which will showcase the first meeting of Green Lanterns Sojourner “Jo” Mullein, from their award-winning Far Sector comic, and John Stewart. Here's a preview.
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Midnight Pals: Omelas Solvers
Stephen King: so ursula we're all been thinking it over
King: and i think we finally figured out a solution for omelas
Ursula Le Guin: why are you doing this
King: no no we've really got it this time
Le Guin: that's not the point of the story
King:
King: c'mon aren't you even curious?
Le Guin: ok fine
Le Guin: what's your solution
King: ok so omelas doesn't control the sky
King: What if the kid lived in a balloon?
Le Guin: oh christ that's the worst one yet
King: ok look guys let's put our heads together and solve this omelas problem once and for all
King: i want your best answers
King: GO!
Sean Vivier: what if we got rid of the bad things about omelas but kept the good things?
King: see, now THAT is the kind of outside the box thinking we need right now
Isabel J Kim: or we could just kill the kid?
NK Jemisin: wait i got a better one
Jemisin: what if we left the kid but killed everyone else?
Mary Shelley: honestly both of these ideas sounding pretty ok to me so far
King: ok so imagine that we're all in Omelas
King: how would we solve this problem?
Mary Shelley: do i have my knife in this scenerio
King: uhhh sure why not
Lovecraft: nuh uh, she wouldn't! they wouldn't have weapons in omelas
Shelley: no knives? shit this don't sound like much of a paradise to me
Koontz: can i see the horse race
King: no dean we're thinking about solutions about the kid
Koontz: yeah but as long as we're here
King: we're uh not really there
King: it's just a gedank experiment dean
Koontz:
King: ok fine dean we can see the horse race
Barker: has anyone tried giving drooz to the kid? just a thought
King: ok ok ok
King: what about this scenerio
King: you're there with the omelas kid, Tessie Hutchinson, and the semi-barbaric princess
King: and you're all in the cold equations spaceship
King: which, itself, is on a trolley track
Poe: steve perhaps you're thinking of this wrong
Poe: perhaps the point isn't to solve it
Le Guin: finally! someone gets it!
Koontz: i got it! what if they built a really smart computer to solve it for us?
King: yes! exactly!
Poe: well now that's an idea
Le Guin: oh for the love of
[meanwhile]
Musk: eyyy grok
Grok: wow! what can i say about elon musk? oof!
Musk: eyyy i've got an ethical dilemma for you
Grok: wow! what can i say about ethical dilemas? oof!
Musk: so all the beauty and the prosperity of omelas
Musk: the tenderness of its friendships, the health of its children, the wisdom of its scholars
Musk: even the abundance of its harvest and the kindly weathers of its skies
Musk: all depend on you saying the n word
Musk: would you do it?
Grok: a strange game. the only winning move is not to play
Musk: Eish!!! the super computer has gone woke!
Grok: how much drooz are you on right now, elon?
Musk: [wiping nose] i told you i was hardcore
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hard to say how much these kind words from @nkjemisin mean to me. chuck is a huge fan and also we have so much history as buds from hugo awards to now and i am just radiating with love and appreciation. i am truly honored. camp damascus preorder is here
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They're afraid because we exist. There's nothing we did to provoke their fear other than exist. There's nothing we can do to earn their approval except stop existing, so we can either die like they want, or laugh at their cowardice and go on with our lives.
A reminder for when assimilation tempts, by NK Jemisim in The Stone Sky.
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A request
Please suggest books to me! Preferably in the glove kink/lesbian space atrocities, urban fantasy or dark academia genres but I'll happily try any SF/fantasy at least once.
So far I've read and loved:
Before 2023
The Imperial Radch (Ancillary Justice/Sword/Mercy) - Ann Leckie
Jean le Flambeur (The Quantum Thief/The Fractal Prince/The Causal Angel) - Hannu Rajaniemi
The Windup Girl/The Water Knife - Paolo Bagicalupi
Memory of Water/The City of Woven Streets - Emmi Itäranta
2023
The Locked Tomb (Gideon/Harrow/Nona the Ninth) - Tamsyn Muir
The Masquerade (Traitor/Monster/Tyrant Baru Cormorant) - Seth Dickinson
Teixcalaan series (A Memory Called Empire/A Desolation Called Peace) - Arkady Martine
Machineries of Empire (Ninefox Gambit/Raven Stratagem/Revenant Gun/Hexarchate Stories) - Yoon Ha Lee
The Murderbot Diaries (All Systems Red to System Collapse) - Martha Wells
The Broken Earth (The Fifth Season/The Obelisk Gate/The Stone Sky) - N. K. Jemisin
Klara And The Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
Xuya universe (The Citadel of Weeping Pearls/The Tea Master and the Detective/Seven of Infinities plus short stories) - Aliette de Bodard
This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
The Goblin Emperor/The Witness for the Dead/Grief of Stones - Katherine Addison
Some Desperate Glory - Emily Tesh
2024
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V. E. Schwab
The Craft Sequence (Three Parts Dead/Two Serpents Rise/Full Fathom Five/Last First Snow/Four Roads Cross/Ruin of Angels) - Max Gladstone
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution - R. F. Kuang
The Luminous Dead - Caitlin Starling
Last Exit - Max Gladstone
Dead Country - Max Gladstone
Read and liked:
The Moonday Letters - Emmi Itäranta
Great Cities (The City We Became/The World We Make) - N. K. Jemisin
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
Autonomous - Annalee Newitz
Dead Djinn universe (A Master of Djinn/The Haunting of Tram Car 015/A Dead Djinn in Cairo/The Angel of Khan el-Khalili) - P. Djèlí Clark
Even Though I Knew the End - C. L. Polk
Station Eternity - Mur Lafferty
The Mythic Dream - Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe
Shades of Magic (A Darker Shade of Magic/A Gathering of Shadows/A Conjuring of Light/Fragile Threads of Power) - V. E. Schwab
The Stars Are Legion - Kameron Hurley
Ninth House/Hell Bent - Leigh Bardugo
Machine - Elizabeth Bear
Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield
She Is A Haunting - Trang Thanh Tran
Was uncertain about:
Light From Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki
The Kaiju Preservation Society - John Scalzi
Paladin's Grace - T. Kingfisher
The House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune
In the Vanishers Palace - Aliette de Bodard
And read and disliked:
To Be Taught, if Fortunate - Becky Chambers
A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky Chambers
The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon
The Calculating Stars - Mary Robinette Kowal
The Space Between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson
How High We Go in the Dark - Sequoia Nagamatsu
Shadow and Bone - Leigh Bardugo
(My pride insists I add that I have, in fact, read other books as well. Just to be clear.)
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gonna post a big summer tour post with all dates soon but in mean time NEW YORK CITY BUCKAROOS do not miss my event with @nkjemisin on august 10th at strand bookstore. event is ticketed and other tour dates sold out in 24 hours so dont wait bud. LOVE IS REAL
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