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Musk claims to be a big fan of the Culture series, in which most characters has changed genders at least once. Makes me wonder if he's read the damn things

Possible semantic slippage, but: always useful to recall that the original Italian Futurists got into Fascism pretty quickly.

_Steel Beach_; one of science fiction's greatest opening lines

One of my favorite books from long ago. The entire thing is very quotable. Gender in the book was absolutely fluid and felt ahead of its time. Was a huge influence on teen me back in the day. And that is one of the best opening lines ever.

Just thinking of this, as John Varley died this month.