For some reason I still like to spend A LOT of time reading. This day was spend reading Uncanny Magazine,

Now, the science doesn’t stop there. As Jemisin pointed out: social sciences are science, too. You can write science fiction about social sciences. You can even write hard science fiction about soft sciences.

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...even if there will be need for some.

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So, I was reading russian translation of I.D. - That Indestructible Something, and while I enjoyed translation just as much as I did enjoyed original - something started to bug me closer to the end. What exactly? Well, see: we (I mean Chatoyance, PeachClover, me,

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Answer was ..mixed bag of links.

On a bit more conservative is blogpost called furry-socialism . Interesting blog in general, but somewhat 'too mainstream' for me, when it comes to really question our (not own'ed by us, may be it even shouldn't, at least in usual sense) world.

Another find was more .... revolutionary:

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When 6 years ago your friend was talking about politics, and you were talking about dolphins. Now, he talks about dolphins, and you (I) talk about politics ...

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...at this nighty time I really think this little available by default, from moment One and very visible detail {to the point I fear to click on it purely by accident!} of user interface here and in many other places says way too well about what kind of expectations we have about our own (ha.ha.ha) society .... not to say those expectations really unfounded, but I feel we have some circular dependency here .....

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I think Ken put it straight back in time:

Ethical Consideration

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If there is science fiction - why there can't be psychological fiction?

I for example understand majority of modern humans don't think like I'll try to show in text below - but we always can imagine something different?

Stage for this fiction set in some undefined future, I don't even know if such future will ever come, and I remember about 'dream carefully, sometimes your dreams will come true.."

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Found by Julian ... who likes biology...and related (or not very related) fields ....

https://jayrockin.tumblr.com/tagged/tiny-sapient-ungulates/

Actually, I even feel motivated to quote myself (via Facebook's 'memories'):

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Andrew Randrianasulu
August 26, 2012 at 3:23 AM ·

question for this night (MSK timezone): is there any way to implement animal-friendly laws WITHOUT loopholes? Animal-friendly in sense ... if i put some lawyers into bodies of those animals {in such a way none from outside will recognize them as humans} - they will find those laws ... good enough.

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