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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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“Although Kathleen Ann Goonan’s 2007 novel “In War Times” won the John Campbell Award, it’s been relatively neglected ever since, uninvited into the upper ranks of the fannish canon of 21st-century SF…Her utopian themes are inspiring. And her sly depiction of warping realities is worthy of Philip K. Dick. In short, this novel reads like Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow,” seeded with Christopher Priest’s “The Separation” and watered with some of Michael Moorcock’s multiversal inventions. It should really be on every fan’s shortlist of best books of the past decade. Now comes the sequel, which has been reviewed only lightly since its midyear release. “This Shared Dream” …The urgent necessity for our species to master its worst impulses and take charge of its own destiny — a core tenet of the SF genre — has seldom been conveyed with such emotional and intellectual force.” Goonan is visiting professor in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts School of Literature, Communication, and Culture. Review by Paul Di Filippo appears in Salon courtesy of Barnes and Noble Book Review, December 18, 2011
