Groundhog Day/Imbolc/Mardi Gras Festival (Georgia)/Candlemas/Kiwifruit Day (California)/Purification Day/Dia De La Candelaria (Mexico)/Carnival (Brazil)
2008-02-02 @ 11:36 p.m.

Early reunion dinner at my paternal grandmother's place. Now staying up to finish reading Simon Ings's Headlong. I have a bit of a thing for science fiction that feature posthumans. What I would really like to see is a writer exploring posthumans and religion. The Dune series comes close, I think, although most of the characters are actually still fundamentally human. After Headlong, I'm going to be reading the Geodesica novels by Shane Dix and Sean Williams, Ascent and Descent. For a really detailed exploration of the distant future featuring not just posthumans but AIs and a whole plethora of other intelligences, go here. I'd love to see someone set a series of novels in the Orion's Arm universe. That'd be totally cool, seriously.