OK. I finished Head On by John Scalzi yesterday. It was a book by him. He's super easy to read (for me). Like my page-per-minute reading him might be double other authors. And sometimes that's really nice. I like the series. It's got sort of a soft take on systemic ableism (like, it's not super deep or challenging, which it's OK for some stuff to be IMO) with some cool robot/transhuman elements without having its head up its own ass the way a lot of transhuman stuff does. #books
Next up is the most recent issue of Jacobin. #books #IGuessActually #magazines #NowReading #AmReading
@benhamill Funny; one of my first brain thoughts this morning was "trans folk are basically transhumans". In that, by and large, we seek ways to modify and transcend our bodies. Just not in the cybernetic sense that tranahumanists focus upon.
@qwyrdo Yeah. Compare the (is it too young to call it classic?) joke:
Nerdbros: Transhumanism seems super cool!
Trans folks: 🎉
Nerdbros: No! Not like that!
I am 100% here for transhumanist fiction that ACTUALLY interrogates what it is to be human instead of just, like, "but with robot wings" or whatever.
It's got some gender and sexuality stuff in the middle that I think some folks would find absolutely scandalous and mind blowing, but aren't a big stretch if you just think of those things and the possibilities transhumanism affords (and also just baseline not that shocking to many folks here). It's presented in the book as something uncommon, but not super shocking.
And the main character is still not explicitly gendered, which I like. #books