Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr AFK 'til Sep 5 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr AFK 'til Sep 5

Disney is fighting hard against termination *right now*, as the heirs of the creators who Marvel's superheroes (including Stan Lee's heirs) seek to terminate their assignments of copyright to Marvel and take back the characters: https://t.co/9aNmSU0atx 29/

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr AFK 'til Sep 5

#10yrsago Matt Ruff’s The Mirage: spectacular alternate history of Arabian manifest destiny https://t.co/beHiRuEmmM #5yrsago Romania’s anti-corruption protests are massive, growing, and they’re playful and serious at once https://t.co/Ke0lBtLagX 3/ https://t.co/ga0URYt9VQ

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr AFK 'til Sep 5

This month marks the publication of "The Actual Star," a new, wildly ambitious, wildly successful novel by @monicabyrne13, spanning 3,000 years of history from the ancient Maya to a distant future. https://www.harpervoyagerbooks.com/book/9780063002913/the-actual-star/ 1/ https://t.co/yeIJY5uQnB

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr AFK 'til Sep 5

@JohnHackworth @_loveallthis @hondanhon A filter could never come up with a fifth factor to legalize VCRs. A filter could never decide that a Black woman didn't need Margaret Mitchell's heirs' permission to tell the story of Gone With the Wind from perspective of enslaved people. https://t.co/WLZW2jfndX

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr AFK 'til Sep 5

RT @JBrianCoyle: @JosephGruber Have you read Attack Surface by Cory @doctorow ? 👍👍 https://t.co/05Kkb4XF7d

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr AFK 'til Sep 5

It is literally the principle that animates the first dystopian science fiction tale: Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus," a 200 year old novel whose lessons we have still not learned. 19/

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@matthew_d_green It's an ideology that is explicitly hostile to democracy inasumuch as a democracy is a way for the majority - who, in this modern Plato's Republic, can't possibly make good choices - to tie the hands of their betters.

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr AFK 'til Sep 5

The Bambi that's entering the PD comes to us from Felix Salten's novel which was banned by the Nazis as an allegory for Europe's treatment of Jews. *That* Bambi is a bizarre, dark novel for adults, and it's long overdue for an excellent English translation. 33/

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr AFK 'til Sep 5

It is literally the principle that animates the first dystopian science fiction tale: Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus," a 200 year old novel whose lessons we have still not learned. 19/

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr AFK 'til Sep 5

Luigi Serafini, Codex Seraphinianus, 1981. Published by Franco Maria Ricci FRM Milano. An illustrated encyclopedia of imaginary things in a constructed language. Read more here https://t.co/q1vlNbk7nh via https://t.co/rvK5uj2iQl https://t.co/cAVIXPsgLQ