REBOOT

For quite some time I’ve been thinking I ought to focus this blog on something, and Dharma’s recent comment on the Boards just gave me the push to get off my pasty white butt and do it.

So, this blog will no longer be about the random crap it has long been about. For those who want to see pics of Japan, my family, and my dog, or ruminations about this and that, I’ve started a new blog here. (By the way, there’s nothing there yet, but I will make update announcements here for that tiny number of you who are interested.)

Instead, I’m going to focus on the theme of utopia. As you probably know, utopian themes are the focus of my literature studies these days, and I’m planning to start a PhD in a couple months with the same focus. So I’m sure to come across a lot of stuff connected to that, stuff that may not fit into my papers, but that I can share with you. Or even if it does fit into my papers, I can still share it with you.

Utopia, of course, is an important part of SF–today, it’s pretty rare for non-SF utopias to be written, though that certainly wasn’t always true. And to make a utopia, you pretty much have to go through a revolution, even if the result of many revolutions is dystopia. So I figure it fits well here at the Revolution SF community.

Right, more later.

superdave