#djuna

[jinamong]

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[lgbtqreads]

New Releases: October 8, 2024

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New Releases: October 8, 2024

[smokefalls]

But my memories are incomplete. They’re like collages made from ripped-up magazines.

Djuna, Counterweight (translated by Anton Hur)

[charliejaneanders]

https://wapo.st/3JYmoqw

My new SFF book review column in the @washingtonpost is about four books that will help you cope with the fanatics in our world. Whether it's a cult of personality around a toxic billionaire, or religious zealots, these books will help.

Paywall-free link: https://wapo.st/3JYmoqw

There's so much more I could have said about these books. The Deep Sky does some really fascinating stuff with VR/AR, which I totally didn't have space to talk about. Asuka's virtual world has a glitch that allows her to see other people's virtual worlds, which is really cool.

Also, C.M. Alongi has been saying on Instagram that she read my novel The City in the Middle of the Night after she'd already finished Citadel, and didn't realize how similar the two novels are. And they definitely have a lot in common! They are in conversation delightfully.

Citadel tackles some of the same themes/ideas as The City in the Middle of the Night, but takes them in a very different direction. And in some ways, Alongi's way works better!

There's a special pleasure in reading a book that takes ideas that I've played with in the past, but improves upon my own approach to them.

Citadel explores some of the same territory as my own City, but goes places I never would have thought of in a million years.

The Saint of Bright Doors gets so much weirder than I can explain without major spoilers, and the "bright doors" of the title turn out to have a really fascinating explanation that dovetails with the cult-leader shenanigans in the book.

This book features one of my favorite examples of a horny underachieving protagonist, a type of character I've been seeing a lot lately.

And Counterweight sort of reminded me of the Matrix films??? Not in terms of plot, but the way that action/thriller beats slowly dissolve into just long discussions about philosophy and artificial sentience.

[kammartinez]

The Enigmatic Science Fiction of Djuna

The radical visions of South Korea’s mononymous, pseudonymous, and officially anonymous sci-fi novelist and film critic.

[vinceverbatim]

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Djuna gerçek arzularının ne olduğuna henüz karar verememişti; insanları ne kadar yaklaştırmak istediğine de. Görünüşte onları çağırıyordu, ama fazla yaklaşmaları, onu ele geçirmeleri, ona hükmetmeleri ya da sahip olmaları konusundaki karmaşık duygulan, korkuları yüzünden, oldukça temkinli bir seslenişti bu: içindeki insanı, o yalın, sıcak canlıyı işgalden koruyacak biçimde, dikkatle. İnsanları çekecek, cazip bir sahne hazırlarken, bir yandan da her türlü işgale karşı gizli, sinsi bir duvar örmekteydi. Hiçbiri fazla yaklaşmadı. Djuna da onlar gittikten sonra tek başına, yapayalnız oturdu - hiç gelmemişlerdi sanki. Yalnızdı; herkesin, her sabah, her rüyadan sonra olduğu kadar yalnız.

- Anais Nin, Albatrosun Çocukları

[jacobwren]

“AI will agree to satisfy every base desire and produce the most horrendous trash. This is what I fear more than losing my job to an AI.” - Djuna

[loynosca]

Signed Second/First Edition of Anais Nin’s “Winter of Artifice.” Illustrations by Ian Hugo, 1942.