![]() This existential part is what makes the genre so appealing to me. I've seen it.felt it!", one can sense what makes us human even in a SF milieu. Quoting from “Blade Runner”, in one of the most wonderful Roy Batty lines, just so you know how geeky I am: "I've felt wind in my hair, riding test boats off the black galaxies and seen an attack fleet burn like a match and disappear. But they say SF at its best is allegorical and because contemporary versions are all about we live in navel gazing times, this one was much up my alley. Back in the day, this was the stuff that interested me less. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a smell of the sea, and of the sweat of so many bodies, their heat and their warmth, and it is the smell of humanity’s spices and the cool scent of its many machines."In “Central Station” by Lavie TidharThis is a navel gazing novel a friend of mine would say it's a novel about the human condition. "The Shambleau called Carmel came to Central Station in spring, when the smell in the air truly is intoxicating. ![]()
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