Interstellar Boats

I ramble a bit at the start about where I'm at when it comes to my phone usage. Feel free to skip to the second section for my thoughts on the new phones and such. Pre Ramble I'm going into Apple's 2026 iPhone event having had the first feeling that my Galaxy S20's battery isn't lasting quite long enough. Nothing I do phone-wise is particularly strenuous, given that I track workouts via my watch, metro or bike where I need, and don't even text much on my phone if I can help it1. Nearly none of…

Dear You, Knowing almost exclusively the title, I dove in expecting an enjoyable but typical sci-fi romp, featuring a twisting tale of a futuristic war long in the past. I was delightfully mistaken. Instead, I was regaled with a collection of delicately crafted calling cards turned love letters documenting butterfly effect espionage evolving into a budding relationship. The literal of the story felt best left to the side, with it's abstract atrocities. I still can't tell what each side was…

Contrasting a world primarily struggling between socialism and capitalism with an anarchist society, The Dispossessed highlights success, absurdity, and failure in them all. Unlike Walkaway's abundance, the desert world Anarres contains a scarcity bound lifestyle reliant on cooperation. At times survival seemed borderline impossible. The stabilizing production and social pressures, which evolved in those times of strife, are now stagnant and creating a regime of their own. In prosperity they…