Cecilia D’Anastasio explores the origins of science fiction via Lucian of Samosata’s True History. Lucian’s True History, a second-century satire of contemporary travel writing that took classical mythology and its monsters at face value. D’Anastasio questions the themes that define science fiction, such as how deeply science and technology must be integrated to classify a work as “science fiction.”
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Thanks, Kim. Having been through the real thing a few times, I would have given him the cerama in a second if 1) he would have shown a weapon, or 2) he had buddies with him, or both. In a situation like that, it’s NEVER worth risking harm to a loved one or yourself just to hang onto a replaceable thing . None of the real robberies I have seen involved any wish to hurt the victim, only to get their stuff. In this case, the drunk guy was also pretty lucky, because Nadia was going to whomp him!Actually, when it was over and we had calmed down our hearts kind of went out to the guy. According to the ranger, he had a pretty miserable life.
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