"resentment is an essential survival skill"
December 21, 2022 5:45 PM Subscribe
A few short scifi pieces by BIPOC authors whose work I love and I frequently recommend. "As a low-quality person waiting for slaughter, Helena understands how those cows feel." "A Series of Steaks" by Vina Jie-Min Prasad (January 2017) (previously) portrays a beef forger, stuck with an awful job, who makes an unexpected friend. "I’m a very expensive prototype but there will be efficiencies at scale." "Left of Bang: Preemptive Self-Actualization for Autonomous Systems" by Vajra Chandrasekera (April 2017), on training in surviving and committing violence, is short and brutal.
It's very much worth checking out their other fiction as well: Vajra Chandrasekera, Vina Jie-Min Prasad.
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It's very much worth checking out their other fiction as well: Vajra Chandrasekera, Vina Jie-Min Prasad.
This is a fundraiser-supported post. Thanks to correcaminos for bidding on this in the MetaFilter fundraiser auction this year!
These are really good. Tight writing, especially in the second one.
Though I was hoping there'd be more hunting down the funders.
posted by Hardcore Poser at 9:21 PM on December 21, 2022
Though I was hoping there'd be more hunting down the funders.
posted by Hardcore Poser at 9:21 PM on December 21, 2022
Thank you for this! I’d read A Series Of Steaks before (almost certainly here) and really liked it but lost it.
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