Status Updates From La via delle stelle

M'està costant entrar-hi.

I have to say this vision of an unembodied life that is a lot about feeling and connecting feels like a dream of the internet - what it was not yet when this book was published and what it has since stopped being because of Big Tech.

I am just way too sober for this book

Yeah, um, I feel like this needed another draft, on the writing level, especially the Tivonel chapters...

This is *almost* pretty good, while being mostly
Chaos.

READING IN ALL CAPS FOR ENTIRE CHAPTERS IS SO LOUD AND EXHAUSTING. WTF, ALLI?!

Aha, so Tiptree can write a joyous sex scene, as long as the sex is between two flying squidlike(?) aliens orgasming from magnetic life-fields in a wind current with no physical contact. Aliens, that reliable resort of dysmorphic eroticism.

“We don’t have much in common. She’s a woman.”
“You prefer men friends?”
“No.”

If Tiptree’s smoke rises up forever maybe they can get some joy from watching us cool nonbinary people set landmines under gender.

Chapter 15 is so fun!

"These beings seem to have had no Fathering; even these mind-experimenters have no real communication. Each is utterly alone. They are aliens to each other."

Now who or what is this small passenger?

SINCE THE ADVENT OF ITS SMALL PASSENGER,
EXISTENCE HAS DEFINITELY BECOME MORE INTERESTING,
DESPITE THE IRREMEDIABLE SADNESS OF ITS GUILT.

A trans alien :-)
"She can’t—be carrying a child?”
“That’s Avanil,” Marockee’s mantle lights with giggles. “Only she’s shortened it to Avan, like a male. She’s practicing Fathering with a young plenya. She wants to prove that females can care for children too.”