By the always killer Lauren Jackson:
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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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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