Reviews Tagged “Politics”

• Changing Planes ★★★★☆ Ursula K. Le Guin
  Lighter than most Le Guin I’ve read, Changing Planes is a Gulliver’s Travels for the present era, the social satire made possible through interdimensional travel.
• A Christmas Carol ★★★★★ Charles Dickens
  It’s been ages since I last read the original, and I wanted a break from a longer book two days before Christmas, so I figured I’d pick it up. And yeah, the story holds up.
• Equivocation Geffen Playhouse, 2009
  Can Shakespeare discover the truth about the Gunpowder Plot? And if so, can he afford to tell it? Political intrigue, terrorism and torture (plus plain old personal conflicts) make for a compelling story.
• Frost/Nixon ★★★★★ Ahmanson Theater, 2009
  Gripping play about the negotiations behind David Frost’s famous TV interviews with ex-President Richard Nixon.
• The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport ★★★★★ Samit Basu
  Starts as a cyberpunk take on Aladdin and gleefully launches into a glorious mishmash of robots, legacies, secrets and political upheaval in a crumbling spaceport slowly sinking into the mud on a backwater planet.
• Ladybird and the Controversy over Inclusivity What people were upset about, why it blew up, and why some people are still leery of the project to this day.
• Nomad of the Time Streams ★★★☆☆ Michael Moorcock
  A 19th-century British soldier in India is flung into three wildly different future wars, forcing him to reexamine the world he thought he was building.
• The Old Iron Dream ★★★★★ David Forbes
  An extended essay tracing the strand of military authoritarianism and white male supremacy in science-fiction, from John Campbell through Heinlein, Pournelle and other major names up through the then-present of 2013.
• Parable of the Sower ★★★★★ Octavia Butler
  Hard to put down. And hard to pick up again. It’s certainly not a fun book, but it’s extremely engaging, despite the bleakness of the slow-apocalypse setting and story.
• Regarding Mozilla and Brave On Brendan Eich’s brief promotion to CEO at Mozilla, the fallout for Mozilla and the creation of Brave.
• The Time Machine ★★★★☆ H.G. Wells
  A bit dry, but it draws you in, and if the plot is simple, it’s enough to wrap around some thought-provoking speculation about the future of humanity - and a critique of industrial society.

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