English Extension Reimagined Worlds Essay Flashcards
Para 1 Mne
Gethen imagines thou estrogen without change
Imagines
truth is a matter of the imagination
thou
not we and they, not I and it, but I and thou
Estrogen
estraven
without
a world without gender
change
“be changed by it” rather than “change it”
Para 2 mne
straight history is parallel stars ahead of time
Straight
Straight lines with no edges
history
history replaced with nuance
paralllel
we like to think of it as parallel to what we know, only bigger
stars
my god its full of stars 3rd stanza
ahead
go ahead
time
time never stops but does it end
Para 3 Mne
Hard and serious genre, outside molecules are improbably consistent anymore
Hard
Hard science fiction “peter nicholls”
Serious
Serious science fiction “Ursula Le Guin”
Genre
Noir fiction, Space opera, and western.
Outside
Outside context problem iain banks
improbably
the long thin improbably belters
molecules
protomolecule
Consistent
if not plausible, at least consistent
anymore
its not the inner planets against the belters anymore.