Biological

[mistersleepless]

Lavinia sits on the bench outside the local Starbs and swallows her antifutureshock meds with a soy chai latte. After a few minutes, she feels able to switch her shades from obstacle-imaging to full vision. The world slowly fades up from green and black wireframe to three-dimensional colour. She gazes blankly over the rail station, at the full-

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[wingedfetus]

>Her winged foetus.<

*blink*

*looks at own LJ name*

weird . . .

[mistersleepless]

You are Teh Future now.

[lars_larsen]

Speculum Bar!

You're a fucking genius!

[belgand]

Bah! Sometimes I resent seeing recent newsposts and such showing up directly or almost directly in Warren's work. I mean, yes, it's very interesting and makes it relevant and disquieting in a way that pure speculation won't always do, but at the same time it kinda feels like he's ripping it off. Taking stuff from reality that's too weird to be true almost and then slotting it in as the future, as a real prediction and analysis of humans' fuckupedness.

A ramble without excuse.. :)

[januarychill]

I think it just comes to a point where, all the weirdest shit you could ever possibly imagine? Someone's already out there outdoing it, or eagerly awaiting the day medical science makes it possible (I know I am). Transposing that reality into the fictional world does no harm to either, in my eyes anyway, and only serves to soldifiy that yes, the membrane between what can be imagined and what is being done is oh so ethereal.
Also, I never feel like Warren's writing the future. Weird Fiction, even and especially that with Sci-Fi themes, is never truly about the future, it's always about a timeless right now under a microscope constructed of digital Ayahuasca and any given madman's drunken perfect insight into our selves and our cultures. That's good scifi anyway.

[masnomas]

I think I can understand your feeling, because I have it, or something like it. Not just with Warren, but any time over anything. Just a man behind the curtain moment. Comes to it, I suppose everyone does it. Influence and cribbing.
And the juxtaposition of the ideas that he's writing futuristic living, and we're finally starting to live in the future dreamed up 40 years ago.

I'm left thinking of some quote or another that I'm going to screw up and can't credit anyway. But something to the effect that reality is weirder than science fiction, because science fiction is limited to what's possible.

[judge_death]

[zebrapix]

Had similar daymares with my firstborn during our visit to the OB/Gyn. He wasn't born with wings, but he's developed quite the forked tongue.

Quite nice. A third of the hair on my back is raised and that's pretty impressive. Thanks.

[serene_orange]

I dig it