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“You have to puke it up,” said Cee. “You have to get down there and puke it up. I mean down past where you can feel it, you know?"
-- Sofia Samatar, "How to Get Back to the Forest"
The thing about seeking out new civilizations is, every discovery brings a day of vomiting. There’s no way to wake from a thousand years of Interdream without all of your stomachs clenching and rejecting, like marrow fists.
-- Charlie Jane Anders, "The Fermi Paradox is Our Business Model"
We sometimes sift through the detritus of the old world to see what can be salvaged for the Rebuild. In hazard suits we find old records, useless plasma TVs, books, religious icons, wheelie bins.
-- Tade Thompson, "The Apologists"
| THESIS | ANTITHESIS |
| Envisionment of future | Allegory of present |
| Utopia | Dystopia |
| Revolutionary technologies | Ecological constraints |
| Prometheanism | Non-human turn |
| Escape from Earth | Re-dedication to Earth |
| Accelerationism | Degrowth |
| Afrofuturism | Afropessimism |