Life imitates SF

Martian History 101: Kim Stanley Robinson, John Varley and others got it right: Mars really did once have large oceans.

As we all know, much more recently, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded this Earth with envious eyes and drew their plans against us, sending an invasion force armed with Heat Rays to eradicate all life here. Now it's our turn to send lasers to Mars.   (via major_clanger)

Gay Pride Daleks!

2007 books

52) Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled / Hard Luck, 1999
Two novellas that explore how two slightly unconventional Japanese women react to situations after people close to them have died, the first discovering how her awareness of the spiritual world has opened up, the second discovering how the circumstances of her late sister's life has now given her own a new direction. Yoshimoto focuses on seemingly irrevelant details that at first make the stories feel too mundane until their importance to the development of the story is revealed. The first tale is quietly unsettling, the second an understated gem of quiet observation.