Topic: Kathleen Ann Goonan

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Kathleen Ann Goonan[/center]

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Noted previously @ N R here:

http://forum.noblerealms.org/viewtopic. … 57&p=2   #29


Originally read the series, noted below, as they were published.

Recently reread them back-to-back.......

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Re: Kathleen Ann Goonan

Kathleen Anne Goonan wrote:

This vision of science fiction as the next modality of human growth, the ultimate realization of the Twentieth Century’s movement through Surrealism, Modernism, and Postmodernism, all of which were linked to science and to changes in how and what we were able to perceive – the flattening of time through the telegraph, for instance – may be poised to completely change the face of literature and the intensity of the literary experience. This is only one small facet of the newnesses we will soon be able to experience, out of an unlimited range of newnesses both within ourselves and in our environment. In the coming era, as we gain ways to manipulate our very biology, human character might well and truly change, and are arts will reflect, and perhaps participate in, these changes.
Science fiction points the way in which the two cultures of science and literature, which represent a schizophrenic split in humanity’s use of information, might merge, and create new possibilities in the nature of consciousness itself.

Re: Kathleen Ann Goonan

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From:

In War Times

By Kathleen Goonan

P. 53

Sam sat on the wooden chair beneath the window and watched the tiny octagonal tiles on the floor form various patterns, depending on - what? Something his brain was doing, suggesting different ways of seeing. Maybe time was a pattern which one chose to see, out of several possible patterns. Perhaps one‘s genetic material - the DNA, which Hadntz claimed was malleable - determined the pattern one saw. Perhaps time was a series of tones - frequencies that humans interpreted and might eventually regulate with as much ease as electricity.

From:

http://www.tut.com/nftu.htm


By the simple act of thinking, vortexes are created, invisible energies are applied, and circumstances begin creeping to make real what was previously just imagined. This supernatural pull of your thoughts continues long after you think them, whenever there follows intent, expectation and action; moving mountains, parting rivers, and doing the "impossible" until there is the inevitable manifestation.

This is how your "thoughts becoming things." How they physically become things in a dimension that already exists, with billions of players and massive momentum. Not by appearing out of thin air, but through a manipulation of such forces in the unseen that literally begin shifting, morphing, and arranging all of the elements in your life so as to deliver to you the nearest equivalent of what you've been thinking. In other words, the "law of attraction."

"Thoughts becoming things" explains the law of attraction. It's why there is a law of attraction. And unlike any other 3 words in all the vocabularies of all the languages in the world, "thoughts become things" tells you exactly where you fit into the picture, as the thinker, the decision maker over what you will think about, revealing your power as a supernatural, all powerful, unlimited, CREATOR.

But, of course, many prefer not to think of themselves as so phenomenally powerful.

                                                       ~The Universe~

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Re: Kathleen Ann Goonan

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Re: Kathleen Ann Goonan

I read this series a while ago. Excellent writing. Now you've inspired me to read it again. I remember feeling quite disturbed about the city and the hive.