Slow as molasses is dandy, and just about my speed in all things (as you have, perhaps, already, observed).
I like your genetics/AI distinction!. I have been meaning to reply to prettyarbitrary's comment on it since, you know, whenever, but haven't yet marshaled a sufficiently cohesive statement -- because I think they're right in everything they said, but I also do tend to trend towards liking different meditations depending on the body in question, and I haven't quite put my finger on why that is yet.
I'm thinking about the genetic manipulation books that come to mind immediately: Butler's Xenogenesis, Atwood's Oryx and Crake, Octavia Butler...again... in Fledgling, Vandermeer's Annihilation (book not movie!, and not Borne as much).
Those are all a LOT more about monstrosity, and to your/prettyarbitrary's point, parentage. And in creation in our own somebody's image—and, also and critically, situations where either parent or child are monsters incomprehensible and thus horrifying to the other. Might you say that "race in our own image" is also very much parentage, but about a mimicking/extending rather than creating a "better" race? Vs genetic manip. is often also about a "better" us? (and then subsequently disappointment/horror/confusion when what is thought to be better is instead just different?)
Ahh, ok, I'm not sure I am reaching complete clarity, but it's been VERY helpful for me to write out!
and: Autonomous added, okaaaayyyy, god I LOVE all of these recs.
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Re: So I'm Slow-As Molasses
Date: 2019-01-18 04:40 am (UTC)I like your genetics/AI distinction!. I have been meaning to reply to
I'm thinking about the genetic manipulation books that come to mind immediately: Butler's Xenogenesis, Atwood's Oryx and Crake, Octavia Butler...again... in Fledgling, Vandermeer's Annihilation (book not movie!, and not Borne as much).
Those are all a LOT more about monstrosity, and to your/prettyarbitrary's point, parentage. And in creation in
our ownsomebody's image—and, also and critically, situations where either parent or child aremonstersincomprehensible and thus horrifying to the other. Might you say that "race in our own image" is also very much parentage, but about a mimicking/extending rather than creating a "better" race? Vs genetic manip. is often also about a "better" us? (and then subsequently disappointment/horror/confusion when what is thought to be better is instead just different?)Ahh, ok, I'm not sure I am reaching complete clarity, but it's been VERY helpful for me to write out!
and: Autonomous added, okaaaayyyy, god I LOVE all of these recs.