If you throw it in the air, chances are, something will stick.In other words, this blog's a messM/married/pushing 60/Back in school after retirementWhat else am I going to do? Play golf?Landscape Architecture/Urban Forestry student
Art by Syd Mead. If I understand the source correctly, this one’s called “Innovations,” and is a surrealist city aerial view done for U.S. Steel in 1968.
In these times, I’ve found that Leo Graf, one of the protagonists of Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold, often comes to mind. Leo is an engineer sent to train a bunch of bioengineered teenagers. (Spoilers below the cut).
When the corporation that Leo works for, which also created and owns the teenagers, decides to shut down the project and subject the kids to unplanned obsolescence (ie, death by abandonment), Leo (1) decides that you can’t do that to kids and (2) realizes that he can engineer his way out of the problem. And that leads down a merry trail of stealing a space station, reconfiguring it to be movable by ship, and running away. Along with a dash of kidnapping and violence.
A few bits that stick with me:
When Leo realizes what’s going to happen to the teenagers and that he needs to do something: “I’m not sure . . . what one human being can do. I’ve never pushed myself to the limit. I thought I had, but I realize now I hadn’t. My self-tests were always carefully non-destructive.”
Dr. Yei, the psychologist assigned to the project, very carefully directs all of the corporate machinery intent on stopping Leo and the teenagers towards careful deliberation and proper process to buy them time to escape. And finally whacks one idiot on the head with a wrench to buy enough time.
Thanks to Dr. Yei pointing out what’s going on, a number of other corporate employees ask enough questions to just gum the whole thing up.
This book, more than maybe other book of LMB’s, makes me wish I lived in a world where people are the way she sees them.
"subverting stereotypes by making a vampire/werewolf couple where the vampire is butch and the werewolf is femme!" did you still make the savage animal person the black one again
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