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Atheist in the Attic
Atheist in the Attic | Samuel Delany
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Appearing in book form for the first time, "The Atheist in the Attic" is a suspenseful and vivid historical narrative, recreating the top-secret meeting between the mathematical genius Leibniz and the philosopher Spinoza caught between the horrors of the cannibalistic Dutch Rampjaar and the brilliant "big bang" of the Enlightenment. Also Delany's "Racism and Science Fiction" combines scholarly research and personal experience in the unique true story of the first major African-American author in the genre. This collection features a bibliography, an author biography, and the candid and uncompromising Outspoken Interview.
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swynn
Atheist in the Attic | Samuel Delany
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Novella about a meeting between Gottfried Leibniz and Baruch Spinoza, that wanders through questions about class, language, antisemitism, desire, philosophy, and god. It's relentlessly thought-provoking and affecting, packing a lot into its 70 pages. The volume includes Delany's justly famous essay on "Racism and Science Fiction," and a recent (2018?) interview with Terry Bisson.

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Gissy
Atheist in the Attic | Samuel Delany
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1. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. 2.Alice isn't Dead. 3.My goal in GR is 55 books. I'm doing good, I have read 39 so far. I'm trying to read books that I owned for long time & read more books received in Litsy swaps. I'm doing good too. Participation in different readathon have helped me.I'm unhauling books I don't like, making space for new ones😜. Excited for too many releases to mention here. 5. To all my swap matches☺️Thank you tagging me.

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tournevis
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tournevis
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I love PMPress's always excellent Outspoken Authors series but this one stands out. The titular short story is clever and funny, though you might need to know Spinoza and Liebniz to follow. The essay, Racism in Science fiction, is sadly as pertinent as it was 20 years ago, when Octavia Butler still lived.

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