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some authors no-one' mentioned. alistair reynolds - hard sf with banks' breadth of vision, and an amazing gothic sensibility (start with revelation space) charles stross - iron sunrise, and singularity sky ken mcleod marxist post-singularity visionary (the stone canal, the cassini division...

is keep the aspidistra flying good? I don't think I've read it - was just re-reading 'coming up for air'. wonderful.

Well, what good comes of this acknowledgement? I don't believe there's any kind of music that can only be made by a person of a particular race. After all, even if racial experience or identity is a component of music, what's to stop someone using empathy, writing music in character, so to speak?

It's a bit utopian, but what I'm trying to say is we should try and ignore it, because I'm not sure anything good comes of focussing on people's racial identity.

Should it matter if the audience is racially mixed or not?

from http://blackdownsoundboy.blogspot.com "Lots of people grew up to, and still listen to, indie. If you go to those gigs, ignoring the obvious issues with musical formulism and tediously safe rituals, even in this city they are tediously monocultural. A thin slice of people of the same class...