Tag: science-fiction
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Never Let Me Go, Ishiguro (2005)
There is a passage near the end of Never Let Me Go that speaks about the inertia of the suffering we cause others (“By the time people become concerned…There was no going back”). Living requires that we cause pain to other beings. There is no avoiding killing microbes with every breath, killing plants and animals…
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Time and Chance, Albert (2003)
The problem is our intuition of time. The laws of physics do not necessitate an experiential distinction between what we call the past (a supposed collection of recorded events) and what we call the future (events necessarily outside our ability to know). Albert’s solution is to stitch together the dynamical laws of motion and only…
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Watchmen, Moore & Gibbons (1986)
Eliza’s take: Armament as a deterrent to nuclear war is a sketchy proposition, yet 80 years since Hiroshima, that seems the only approach with traction. The world’s arsenals only grow, and no nation, if attacked, would not respond. The ensuing tit-for-tat would kill millions instantly, billions slowly, and turn the planet into a radioactive sunless…