Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
(Poor Godshaping. Lack of forethought.)
Octavia E. Butler • Parable of the Sower
Visionary fiction
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
To die is to lose the self and rejoin the rest. He had kept himself, and lost the rest.
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle)
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Myq Kaplan • 2 cards
the exploration of the planets, the billion chemical heaps in Africa that were now not even corpses,
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
I am essentially a novelist. The ideas that most interest me tend to be big. Exploring them takes more time and space than a short story can contain.
Octavia E. Butler • Bloodchild
There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.
Octavia E. Butler • Parable of the Sower
And Star Wars (the force); William Gibson (Idoru); China Mieville (dream shit); Nalo Hopkinson (sensual breathtaking magic); the Zapatistas (many worlds exist); the Black Panthers (meet the biological needs of a community as a mode of organizing); Black feminist artists Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Lucille Clifton, and Toni Cade Bambara