Comments on: Gernsblack http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/12/gernsblack/ Rob MacDougall Dot Org Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:00:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rob http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/12/gernsblack/#comment-704 Rob Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:59:41 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2007/12/gernsblack/#comment-704 Thanks! For the link to the cool Afro-Futurism essays. Man, would I love to run an alternate Starchildren offshoot in the P-Funkverse. (See also, Walter Mosely's weird young adult novel 47, in which High John the Conqueror is a slave-emancipatin' space alien.) For indirectly leading me to read a zillion comments on whether some dude in an issue of Grant Morrison's Batman I haven't even read is a magical negro, no thanks... Thanks! For the link to the cool Afro-Futurism essays. Man, would I love to run an alternate Starchildren offshoot in the P-Funkverse. (See also, Walter Mosely’s weird young adult novel 47, in which High John the Conqueror is a slave-emancipatin’ space alien.)

For indirectly leading me to read a zillion comments on whether some dude in an issue of Grant Morrison’s Batman I haven’t even read is a magical negro, no thanks…

]]> By: mgrasso http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/12/gernsblack/#comment-703 mgrasso Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:24:36 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2007/12/gernsblack/#comment-703 http://io9.com/5034430/escaping-from-slave-ships-to-space-ships http://io9.com/5034430/escaping-from-slave-ships-to-space-ships

]]> By: Do You Feel Lucky, Steampunk? http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/12/gernsblack/#comment-702 Do You Feel Lucky, Steampunk? Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:55:50 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2007/12/gernsblack/#comment-702 [...] histories. The second one is particularly unpleasant–it’s like the photo negative of Gernsblack. Much as I love the steampunk aesthetic, a world combining 19th century ideas and prejudices with [...] [...] histories. The second one is particularly unpleasant–it’s like the photo negative of Gernsblack. Much as I love the steampunk aesthetic, a world combining 19th century ideas and prejudices with [...]

]]> By: Rob http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/12/gernsblack/#comment-701 Rob Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:05:54 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2007/12/gernsblack/#comment-701 Melissa: Thanks very much! You don't have to explain about not being into SF or counterfactuals. Sci-fi can too often be as much a clubhouse as a genre, replete with code words and secret handshakes and not always inviting to the outsider. Which makes me value your nice words about Gernsblack all the more. I'll keep working on the alternative social-cultural history front. There is a kind of alternative early America <i>implied</i>, but not made explicit, in my <a href="http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2007/05/make-mine-roanoke/" rel="nofollow">essay on Roanoke</a>. Melissa: Thanks very much!

You don’t have to explain about not being into SF or counterfactuals. Sci-fi can too often be as much a clubhouse as a genre, replete with code words and secret handshakes and not always inviting to the outsider. Which makes me value your nice words about Gernsblack all the more.

I’ll keep working on the alternative social-cultural history front. There is a kind of alternative early America implied, but not made explicit, in my essay on Roanoke.

]]> By: melissa http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/12/gernsblack/#comment-700 melissa Mon, 17 Dec 2007 04:16:39 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2007/12/gernsblack/#comment-700 This is terrific. I loved. Please understand that I detest science fiction and find most counterfactuals inane. To be fair, I just don't get SF; can't read it; become frustrated. (Yes, I understand that this is me, rather than the genre). So for me to love this is a revelation. If you can nurture interest in cultural-social alternative histories, I will change my mind. How about something going farther back: Native peoples, Jamestown, Champlain? This is terrific. I loved.

Please understand that I detest science fiction and find most counterfactuals inane. To be fair, I just don’t get SF; can’t read it; become frustrated. (Yes, I understand that this is me, rather than the genre).

So for me to love this is a revelation. If you can nurture interest in cultural-social alternative histories, I will change my mind.

How about something going farther back: Native peoples, Jamestown, Champlain?

]]> By: Adam #1 http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/12/gernsblack/#comment-699 Adam #1 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:08:46 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2007/12/gernsblack/#comment-699 What I _mean_ to say, is that you are one creative mo-fo, and for me to even humourously suggest you've got to be on something to blog such-like should be frowned upon. Lissen to Nancy: Just Say No! All this aside, I _am_ in fact interested in a K-N cocktail. Send it UPS, my sinuses shall dance with delight! What I _mean_ to say, is that you are one creative mo-fo, and for me to even humourously suggest you’ve got to be on something to blog such-like should be frowned upon. Lissen to Nancy: Just Say No!

All this aside, I _am_ in fact interested in a K-N cocktail. Send it UPS, my sinuses shall dance with delight!

]]> By: Books News » Blog Archive » Gernsblack http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/12/gernsblack/#comment-698 Books News » Blog Archive » Gernsblack Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:12:08 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2007/12/gernsblack/#comment-698 [...] GernsblackBy Rob—Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man. It’s alternative history time, kids! This is something I wrote last year as part of an alternate history writing game. Some explanation follows at the end. Granville Woods, WC Handy, Lewis Latimer …Old is the New New - http://www.robmacdougall.org [...] [...] GernsblackBy Rob—Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man. It’s alternative history time, kids! This is something I wrote last year as part of an alternate history writing game. Some explanation follows at the end. Granville Woods, WC Handy, Lewis Latimer …Old is the New New – http://www.robmacdougall.org [...]

]]> By: Rob http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/12/gernsblack/#comment-697 Rob Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:11:53 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2007/12/gernsblack/#comment-697 Adam #1: Can I interest you in a nice Kahlua-Nyquil cocktail? Adam #2: I prefer the term "groundbreaking research agenda" to "hobbyhorse," but thanks! Adam #1: Can I interest you in a nice Kahlua-Nyquil cocktail?

Adam #2: I prefer the term “groundbreaking research agenda” to “hobbyhorse,” but thanks!

]]> By: Adam http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/12/gernsblack/#comment-696 Adam Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:38:40 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2007/12/gernsblack/#comment-696 This really is the most fun blog I've ever encountered. I don't even share Rob's intellectual hobbyhorses, and I still can't get enough of it. That's all. This really is the most fun blog I’ve ever encountered. I don’t even share Rob’s intellectual hobbyhorses, and I still can’t get enough of it.

That’s all.

]]> By: Adam http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2007/12/gernsblack/#comment-695 Adam Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:11:51 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2007/12/gernsblack/#comment-695 Wob, Can I buy some pot from you? Wob,
Can I buy some pot from you?

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