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rynnaaurelius · 6 months

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I'd really love the sci fi reading list, if it's not too difficult! Thank you for your explanation

Yes! Okay, requisite this is Not Authoritative Or Comprehensive claim, I'm a dork with a Russian degree, but here we go:

(I tried to organize this chronologically because if I did it thematically we would be here all day. Also, I still have more books, but they get increasingly niche. This is a Greatest Hits playlist, and if you look these people up, you will find their contemporaries)

(Long list below the Read More)

Jules Verne — 80,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth. Excellent continuations of that exploration/'ostracized' genius figure, so popular in the previous century. French, so English translations. Kinda marks the transition point between 19th c. pure spec exploration and what we would call sci-fi. BUT BEFORE HIM...

Mary Shelley — Frankenstein is probably the first sci-fi novel as we know it. BUT BEFORE HER...

Margaret Cavendish — Okay, the 'first sci-fi novel' is hard to define for obvious reasons, but The Blazing World has as good a claim as any. Published in the 17th c., so it really traverses the genres, but includes a utopian kingdom accessible via the North Pole. Her husband was so impressed that he composed a sonnet for her, which serves as the epigraph for the novel; it's a wild read in the same way Robinson Crusoe and other early novels are, and I'm mostly including it here because it's so, so wild to read in 2023.

John W. Campbell — That dude. The hero's journey guy. His short story Who Goes There? Has been adapted a million times into a little movie called The Thing. Unfortunately got really into race science, so Isaac Asimov told him to fuck off. Edited the magazine Astounding Science Fiction, which in 1939 published Black Destroyer by Alfred Van Vogt, usually cited as the beginning of Golden Age sci-fi.

H. G. Wells — Big critic of class divisions in Victorian English society, coined the term 'time machine' as we think of it in his novel...The Time Machine. A lot of what we consider 'classic' time travel tropes were, if not invented here, had their seeds planted here. Also famous for War of the Worlds, leading to a MINOR disturbance when Orson Welles did a dramatic radio reading.

Edgar Rice Burroughs — the man, the myth, the legend. If I could persuade you to read one white English sci-fi author with rather dubious politics, it would be him, if only because of how influential he was. Mostly famous for Tarzan, but he also wrote a whole series about Hollow Earth that crosses over with Tarzan at some point (Pellucidar), as well as the series Barsoom (A Princess of Mars and its sequels), and Amtor (Guy named Carson Napier gets transported to Venus, which was a watery hellscape, as was popularly theorized for a while).

They're basically pulp comics before pulp comics, published in magazines, extremely lurid and dramatic, and he did write his own crossovers. These were what the first modern superhero comics writers often grew up reading and what inspired them—John Carter's cultural cachet was borrowed by Superman until it became his cultural cachet.

They're very fun, but also supremely products of their time, and extremely fond of the British Empire.

Judith Merrill — prolific writer and editor, who also wrote one of my personal favorite reactions to the atomic bomb in Shadow on the Hearth.

Gabriel García Márquez — we're gonna take half a sidestep into magical realism here (which is, to define quickly, a genre incorporating the fantastic into otherwise realistic narratives, often formed and associated with decolonial and post colonial Latin American fiction, but not always. It's a fuzzy genre). He wrote in Spanish, but I read him in English. One Hundred Years of Solitude is probably one of the great novels ever written. My mother is also telling me to rec Love in the Time of Cholera and she wrote about the man, so listen to her.

Jorge Amado — the sixties were the big magical realism heyday. Amado was Brazilian and his Dona Flor and her Two Husbands is a book my Spanish high school teacher made me swear to read some day.

Andre Alice Norton — Deserves a spot for being one of the most prolific sci-fi authors of all time during a time when sci-fi was INCREDIBLY inhospitable to women. Over 300 books!

Robert Heinlein — This man is the poster child for "male author who writes groundbreaking sci-fi novels but cannot be normal about women with a gun to his head". The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress is excellent and incredibly important for how comprehensive the creation of Luna and its workers was, even if it is very sixties free love. Also wrote Starship Troopers, the novel.

Edward Smith — you haven't seen drama until you read what they said when Lensman (first book is Triplanetary) lost to Foundation for the Hugo in the sixties.

Larry Niven — Fleet of Worlds! Ringworld won a whole host of awards and deservedly so in 1970. Fair warning, his stuff decidedly falls under "hard" sci-fi (lots and lots of discussion for plausible alien artifacts), though it is awesome just in terms of how he can communicate scale. If you see a big ring-like structure in space, you can thank this guy, basically (the term ringworld comes from here). Also did a bunch of co-writing. I haven't read his other stuff, but CoDominium is on my list (he co-wrote it. First book is The Mote in God's Eye). If you liked the TV show The Expanse when it did the alien stuff and the later books it never got to adapt, you'll love this guy.

Samuel R. Delaney — Dhalgren is a book I am forbidding you to research before reading. Go in prepared. You have been warned. You will either love this book or set it on fire.

Stanislaw Lem — Solaris. I started this novel last week after watching the Tarkovsky film and. It's doing something to my brain, that's for sure. It's a book where I have to read every sentence twice. If you read it, find a good translation if you don't speak Polish. The author famously is very mad at critics who use Freudian analysis for it, so tread carefully (it's about the limits of rationality and our ability to understand, so. Fair).

Joanna Russ — The Female Man is a seminal work of feminist sci-fi. It's—fascinating, to be honest. Discusses socially enforced dependence of women on men and the creation of a different gender, a "female man", when the protagonist chooses to reject it and thus her socially enforced gender. I wouldn't call it a transgender manifesto (written in 1975, features insufficiently masculine men undergoing sex change surgery, so...yeah) but it definitely awoke something in my brain when I was 16 lol. I would LOVE to see it revisited in literary criticism from a modern perspective, especially from trans people.

C.J. Cherryh — If we talked about female sci-fi authors from the 1950s-70s writing under gender ambiguous aliases, we would be here all day, so I'm picking the one whose books I got for cheap at a book sale. Her Foreigner series has such a good premise with descendants of a lost Earth ship and interstellar court drama, and it's SO fun.

Poul Anderson — the name is not a typo, do not look up Paul Anderson, you will never find him. I actually have a copy of Three Swords and Three Lions currently collecting dust on my shelf and judging me right now as I wait to read it. Tau Zero is one of the greatest things I've ever read. The time dilation stuff gets kinda dense at times, but he incorporates some interest in his Swedish history and folk tales into it, and his explanation of travel at the speed of light and incorporating that into his discussion of nationalism is incredible. The ending where they survived [REDACTED] and landed on what may have been [REDACTED] has been bouncing around my brain for a bit now.

Laura Esquivel — Like Water for Chocolate is from the magical realism reading list.

Salman Rushdie — Midnight's Children is one of those bucket list books, for better or worse. Recontextualized Indian independence from the British and the Partition through framing of a husband telling the story to his wife, as he actively tells the story to her. Really uses the fantastical versus the real w/history versus truth so well.

Nancy Farmer — The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, for the kids lying about their age on Tumblr dot hell. Three kids try to escape a kidnapping after sneaking out—in 23rd century Zimbabwe. With the help of three mutant detectives. It rules.

Ben Okri — Okay, I have not read his stuff yet, but it is on my list. Other people here have discussed his influence on them in post colonial sci-fi. His big one is The Famished Road, first in a trilogy, and renowned for its discussion of the spiritual and realist world coexisting in African animist spiritual life.

Nnedi Okorafor — I have read one of her short stories, Remote Control, and currently have an book list with her other stuff on it. Other people I know vouched for her work. She specifically writes Africanfuturism and Africanjujuism centered around her Nigerian background, and follows on from the likes of Okri and Octavia Butler. I'd also add if you're a Stephen King fan when he's in Dark Tower mode, she's probably gonna have things that appeal to you.

Mentions that are absolutely influential but don't need explaining on this website: Franz Kafka, Ursula K Le Guin, Douglas Adams, N. K. Jemisin, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, Alduous Huxley, Philip K. Dick, Orson Scott Card, Kurt Vonnegut, George Orwell, Octavia Butler, Neil Gaiman, Toni Morrison.

(to be clear: you SHOULD read them, but you probably know who most of them are and/or why they're big deals. Most of them are also incredibly prolific, and explaining their bodies of work are other posts. Trying to make a list about other folks)

For more on Afrofuturism,(not to be confused with Africanfuturism), I recommend the shit out of Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture, full of short stories and guides to art and music. I, alas, lack similarly useful authoritative guides to other genres, but I have read that one, so wanna toss it out there. There's so much.

#scifi #science fiction #i got an ask!#literature #book recs

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gogmstuff · 2 years

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Lady Catherine Ponsonby, Duchess of St. Albans by Thomas Gainsborough (Sotheby's - 32Jan13 auction Lot 299) 2460X2986 @72 10Mp. According to the Catalog note, “Lady Catherine Ponsonby was the daughter of William, 3rd Earl of Bessborough (1704-1793) and Lady Caroline Cavendish, daughter of the Duke of Devonshire. She married on 4 May 1783, to Aubrey, 5th Duke of St. Albans.”

1783 Self portrait by Marie-Gabrielle Capet (location ?), From tumblr.com/blog/view/sims4rococo76; erased most obvious spots & flaws w Pshop 1280X1672 @72 575kj.

#Rococo fashion #Lady Catherine Ponsonby #Louis XVI fashion #Duchess of St. Albans #Thomas Gainsborough #Georgian fashion #straight hair #high coiffure #hair ribbon #chemise #U neckline #Marie-Gabrielle Capet as subject #Marie-Gabrielle Capet #curly hair #long hair #square décolletage #elbow-length sleeves #lace cuffs #wrap

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viallyvee · 2 years

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Hello!

I am a growing writer and i would appreciate constructive criticism from now on.

✨I will be writing:

Fluff

H/cs and drabbles

Angst

Angst-comfort, comfort-angst

Characters reacting to a situation (specify which characters and scenario pls)

Canonxcanon

🚫I will not be writing:

Anything sexual ( i see you 📸)

Incest

Matchups

Child/adult

Canonxfanon

Anything showing homophobia and/or transphobia

I may add some things to both lists.

I will write fandoms for

The Owl House

Villainous

Little Witch Academia (i will rarely accept requests for this since im still watching it)

Black Magic (sacredhyacinth on tapas)

Hard Lacquer (tapas)

Unfamiliar (also tapas)

Anon asks are allowed!

If you want me to draw certain characters in a situation, thats ok :) same rules apply to this. Canon characters only thoo

Black Magic characters i will be writing for

Loretta Dalma

Gabriel Williams

Melanie Lycan

Amara Wilson(i forgot her last name :skull:)

Elise Martinez-Welton

Roman Welton

Raquel Martinez

Mina Ito

Reina

Marina

Julius

Marlas

Maida

Sabrina

Hard Lacquer

Claire (will add more later)

Unfamiliar

Planchette

Sunny

that one doctor (did he have a name or i forgot??)

Babs

Pinyon

Little Witch Academia

Diana Cavendish

Atsuko Kagari

Lotte Yansson

Amanda O' Neil

Villainous

Dr. Flug

Black Hat

Miss Heed

Dementia

The Owl House

Luz Noceda

Amity Blight

Eda Clawthorne

Raine Whispers

Kikimora

Hunter Wittebane

See you in my inbox 😉✨

#writing #cartoon #art

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catherinek-g · 9 months

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Example of Gothic literature: The Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson creates a Gothic atmosphere throughout the book by continuously implementing the key values seen in every piece of Gothic literature. This can be seen as he describes the buildings surrounding the characters or how he uses the story to criticize certain aspects Victorian society.

This Gothic novella was published in 1886 and follows the story of an investigation led by lawyer, Gabriel Utterson, about his friend, a well renowned scientist, Henry Jekyll and his violent partner Edward Hyde. The story is based in Victorian London and spans from the luxurious streets of Cavendish square to the dingy lit corners of mysterious Soho. The character of Mr Utterson is a representative of the "Victorian gentleman", someone who is well behaved in society and doesn't get involved in the "ugly" sides of life however, as the story progresses, he can't help but become interested in the darkness and violence that is highly shunned by the higher classes and ends up finding the horrible truth about his dear friend...

Dr Jekyll is much like Mr Utterson in the way he upholds the high social standards put in place however, Jekyll gives in to his dark desires and interests which ultimately ends in the creation of Mr Hyde. Hyde is a brutal individual who is responsible for most of the violence seen in the novella. His character plays into the Victorians intense fear of de-evolution and the supernatural as all of the characters that meet him have the same repulsed and uneasy reaction to him, some even comparing his appearance to that of Satin ("If I ever saw Satin signature on a face...").

At the time this book was written/released, Dawin's "The Origin of species" had made a massive impact on the Victorians as it specifically challenged societies religious views on creation. This made some believe that humans could somehow degenerate back into what ever animal they evolved from. An example were this is shown can be Hyde's ape-like description and actions.

I think this novella is a good example of Gothic literature at the time as it showcases everything a piece of Gothic literature is about. I highly recommend if your a fan of this genre :)

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spoilertv · 9 months

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#SpoilerTV

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alemicheli76 · 1 year

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"Il bacio della bestia" di Nina Talvi, Triskell edizioni. A cura di Barbara Anderson

SINOSSI: Gabriel Cavendish ha una sola certezza nella vita: odia le streghe.Quando però scopre che la tomba di Oberon, occultata nella foresta della Lapponia finlandese, è stata presa di mira dai Berserker, non ha altra scelta che collaborare proprio con una di loro.Come tutte le Sussurranti, Ava è specializzata nell’erigere barriere di protezione. Quando il più odioso dei figli di Caino le…

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nepofm · 2 years

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spotted at met steps , wearing last season’s jimmy choo ? i’d leave the steps in the next 24 hours before nepoupdates catches them & if it were me , i’d definitely go back to the checklist of golden rules .

laia roselia lizbeth alexa demie

ezra miles cavendish lorenzo zurzolo

giselle choi jennie kim , muse a

lucas huntzberger jacob elordi , muse 2k

alexa demie. demi woman. she/her. ›spotted at the met steps , laia roselia lizbeth , most likely listening to a house in nebraska by ethel cain with their airpods pro . the twenty seven year old gained quite a reputation , known to be -delusory yet +emotive to anyone who knows them . you'll easily spot them when you hear about rose petal plush , lingered softness on skin ; prone & limned in something halcyon , powdered sugar on cupid's bow , calluses on the pads of fingers that make for a mindless roam on cutting steel , cool ivory alike / gilded success built off the dust that gathers on the hem of sunday best , traded for glitter & a mindless numbing shot right to the core , stained glass & bruised knees exchanged for american express & champagne on ice , condemnation on high , followed by their springtime in a park by maison margiela . latest nepoupdates article talks about midwest songstress seen in tearful verbal altercation with woman claiming to be her mother , but i guess any reputation is good reputation .

lorenzo zurzolo. cis man. he/him. ›spotted at the met steps , ezra miles cavendish , most likely listening to can't go home by weyes blood with their airpods pro . the twenty - three year old gained quite a reputation , known to be -otiose yet +sirenic to anyone who knows them . you'll easily spot them when you hear about vodka splashed over ice , no price too high when it's not your card that you flash / & what's that about rich boys , the cavity where heart & soul should beat in syncopation ? fleet of shimmering sports cars , an ingrained boredom you can't escape ⎯⎯ would you want to ? expensive sunglasses with fragmented lenses , unfocused / bloodshot gaze , first row at fashion week , waves crashed upon picturesque shoreline that you've grown up against . luxury made empire , bored little boy king with nothing to show for it , followed by enclave by amouage . latest nepoupdates article talks about hotel heir spotted in cocaine haze with less - than - stellar company , but i guess any reputation is good reputation .

jennie kim. she & her. cis woman. ›spotted at the met steps , giselle choi , most likely listening to cuff it by beyoncé with their airpods pro . the twenty-five year old gained quite a reputation , known to be -reserved yet +spontaneous to anyone who knows them . you'll easily spot them when you hear about the sound of clicking heels against marble floors , a loud laugh echoing in a silent room , perfectly manicured nails holding a croissant & muffled french words spoken through crimson lips , followed by gabrielle by chanel . latest nepoupdates article talks about giselle ignoring & running away from family duties in france , but i guess any reputation is good reputation .

jacob elordi. he/him. cis male. ›spotted at the met steps , lucas huntzberger , most likely listening to trust issues by drake with their airpods pro . the twenty three gained quite a reputation , known to be -self-obsessed yet +protective to anyone who knows them . you'll easily spot them when you hear about cigarette butts, rudely canceling important plans at the very last minute, rolex shopping, any excuse to use the private jet , followed by antaeus by chanel . latest nepoupdates article talks about nate getting into a physical fight with a random paparazzi once being asked about his ex-girlfriend , but i guess any reputation is good reputation .

#appless rp #rich kids rp #oc rp #thank u 4 applying i Love all of these <3 #accepted.

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universomovie · 2 years

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Orgulho e reparação: editoras e academia resgatam o pensamento de mulheres filósofas

Obras de pensadoras têm suas especificidades e servem de contraponto à abstração masculino, dizem estudiososPor Ruan de Sousa Gabriel — São Paulo As filosófas Hildegard Von Bingen, Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret Cavendish, Ban Zhao, Nísia Floresta, Mary Wollstonecraft e Sophie Oluwole Gustavo Amaral Quase ninguém se lembra, mas Sócrates, aquele sábio que perambulava por Atenas repetindo perguntas…

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sutherlcnds · 3 years

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OUSIDE THE BALLROOM, EASTWELL HALL. 6th January, 1800. feat. @gcavendish

It was very difficult to locate his ribbon-matches, after the first one. At least they’d seated him next to the young woman who shared the yellow ribbon, but after that he was on his own. The hosts had left him - poor, antisocial Benjamin Granville - to flit around the ballroom, trying to locate the person who must have the same shade of purple ribbon as him. So far - he’d had no luck, only finding lighter purple ribbons belonging to other gentlemen.

He thinks he may have spotted it, finally, and he sidesteps Lady Hallivand, trying to avoid a direct run-in again. She was far too interested in his mask, and Ben had half a mind to hand over the damned thing. Certainly his hosts would appreciate it more than him, the edges were beginning to get uncomfortable and Ben was very easily annoyed by uncomfortable clothing.

“Hello, Miss?” Ben starts, clearing his throat just before speaking, standing awkwardly to the left of the young woman who’s bright white dress was hard to miss in the crowd, “But I believe we are matched? This is the same purple, right?” He holds up his own ribbon hoping she will compare it to hers, “If you’d like to - I believe I owe you a dance.”

#𝖇𝖊𝖓𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓 𝖌𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖛𝖎𝖑𝖑𝖊: thread.#epiphany;masquerade #with: gabrielle cavendish.#gabriellethread001

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baronwillliam · 3 years

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While William fully intended to ask Lady Hallivand to dance, he knew that there wasn't any way that he could simply twirl about the dancefloor with the hostess and then disappear for the rest of the night. There was socializing to do, a few more dances to be had at minimum (Not many, but enough so that even his mother wouldn't be able to harass him too much about it).

The young lady that he'd been seated next to for dinner was his first dance partner of the evening, and while she wore a mask, as everyone did, it wasn't enough to keep him from noticing that she was lovely. His first thought at the layers of delicate tulle and pale coloring was that she resembled an angel and would most certainly be stolen away from him with barely restrained anticipation by someone at the first possible chance.

William, as someone that tended to put his focus on asking young ladies that were missing out on their chance to enjoy the dancefloor, felt certain that he wouldn't have shared a song with the young woman if they weren't paired together as she wouldn't have any shortage of men asking for a few moments of her attention.

"My compliments to you. While I don't often spare a thought for women's fashion, it does appear that you might be the most elegantly dressed here, if you'll forgive my observation." He admitted, glancing towards the band as the first notes of music filled the air. // @gcavendish

#gcavendish #t: gabrielle cavendish

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zoeekar · 6 years

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Imagine

Your OTP

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Canon

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gogmstuff · 2 years

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Back to the 1780s (from top to bottom) -

ca. 1780 Femme by ? (location ?). From institutdugrenat.com/2020/05/portrait-de-femme-vers-1780/ via pinterest.com/asteria0052/интересное/; erased spots w Pshop & blew up to fit screen 1140X1400 @96 2.2Mp.

1783 Self portrait by Marie-Gabrielle Capet (location ?), From tumblr.com/blog/view/sims4rococo76; erased most obvious spots & flaws w Pshop 1280X1672 @72 575kj.

1785 A Visit to the Grandmother by John Raphael Smith (Britain). From tumblr.com/blog/view/sims4rococo76; enlarged to fit screen 930X1200 @72 317kj.

1785 Duchesse de Châtillon by Jean-Laurent Mosnier (Christie's - 27&28Nov12 auction Lot 444). Erased spots w Pshop 2236≈2267 @150 1Mj.

Lydia Henrietta Malortie, Mrs Henry Hoare, vintage artwork by George Romney (location ?). From periodprints.com 750X1000 @72 225kj.

1787 Madame Adélaïde Auguié, sister of Madame Campan and femme du chambre of Marie Antoinette by Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller (location ?), From tumblr.com/blog/view/silverfoxstole; enlarged to fit screen 1064X1394 @72 287kj.

Jeune femme avec son chien by Henri-Nicolas van Gorp (Sotheby's - 17Jun15 auction Lot 52 via pinterest.com/nitirood/la-mode-au-18ème-siècle/) 2731X3493 @72 2.6Mj.

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