Ninth Step Station

February 4, 2020July 11, 2020 ~ Ergative

I was first sucked into the world of Serial Box through their excellent marketing, which offered me the entire first season of Book Burners for free, and which I liked so much that I agreed to shell out real money for some of the other properties. (Now it looks like they're charging for it--and good … Continue reading Serial Box! The Vela/The Fisher of Bones/Cold Witch/Ninth Step Station

Null States (2017), by Malka Older

August 25, 2019December 6, 2019 ~ Ergative

I enjoyed this sequel to Infomocracy very much, because Malka Older is a smart, imaginative, thoughtful author, who writes smart, imaginative, thoughtful books. One thing I particularly appreciated was that this book engages more deeply with some of the perhaps overly optimistic aspects of the microdemocracy system that made me raise an eyebrow in the … Continue reading Null States (2017), by Malka Older

Infomocracy (2016), by Malka Older

August 18, 2019November 8, 2019 ~ Ergative ~ 1 Comment

This book was a smart and terrifically imaginative political thriller that invents a genuinely new governing system of 'microdemocracy'. The idea is that the world is split into 'centenals' of 100,000 people each, and each centenal votes on how it wants to be governed. There are multiple governing bodies, which are sort of like political … Continue reading Infomocracy (2016), by Malka Older