By the always killer Lauren Jackson:
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Author: SGJ
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Talking about season 1, episode 14, “Gender Bender.” You remember: the white-clay sort-of “Amish” one?
Anyway, it seems to share a lot of the themes and imagery with Midsommar : free love/lots of sex, fun with distorted/altered perception, big serene meadows, but, too, a lot of the beats line up as well: there’s interlopers in this long-isolated commune, there’s a handy showcase of “what we do with our elderly,” there…
Which is to say: every step you take is into a rabbit hole. 2001 says “It’s full of stars,” but that’s not actually the future we’ve arrived at. It’s more: “It’s full of rabbit holes.” This is one, for me—the happiest one ever:
From the March issue of Locus (got to log in / buy):
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See you there July Fourth:
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At Authors on a Podcast Talking Books:
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Amazing that I’m so lucky as to still be doing these FOUR YEARS after Mongrels came out, yes?
And, the junkified study that’s my backdrop? It’s stacks of comic books and a stray basketball and a Galaga machine and 8-tracks and horror DVDs and a deer…
is the author of 23 or 25 or so books, +300 stories, some comic books, and all this stuff here. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, and has a few broken-down old trucks, one PhD, and way too many boots