http://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/fictionblog Fourierist science fiction with a Mutualist message - voyages through the Libertarian Labyrinth Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:25:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Tower of Babel—"Gate of God"—Site of the Confusion of Tongues. Babelites identify the Confusion of Tongues with the expulsion from Eden. The Original Tongue, it is said, was one of presentation, and not representation, a language not separable from its subjects and objects. Before the Fall--as Babelites also refer ... http://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/fictionblog/2007/11/07/fragment-on-radical-babelism —It’s too bad you won’t be here for the official release. You’ve done so much work… —right. And now it’s time for you to do some. —Sure. While you go off gallivanting… —While I fly off to the Island of Misfit Reformers and try to network for the System. Honestly, I think I ... http://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/fictionblog/2007/11/06/day-of-departure-with-will 1984 The Federal Corporation officially divested itself of its Conflict Life Technologies unit in 1984. In practice, this meant the transfer of equipment, staff and intellectual properties to a number of ostensibly competing firms, outside of Federal jurisdiction and beyond the reach of Territorial law. The scandal surround the Madonna Project ... http://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/fictionblog/2007/11/06/1984 Morning in New Earth, OR. Late summer. Shadowy still in the canyon of the St. Mary's, here, at least, where there is a canyon. Sun bright on the coast range, glinting here and there from some military cast off in the old Reserve: the half-ton on the slide, the radar array, ... http://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/fictionblog/2007/11/02/transit-in-papillon-last-day-in-the-new-earth-i MEMORIES   1986: Meredith is ten years old, and they're headed for the lakeshore. Yvette is on an errand to Gilead, where Gil Spooner is once again at war with the state waterways people. Days alone with Merry are a multiply-guilty pleasure, and a rare one. Today, he wishes she would chatter, ... http://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/fictionblog/2007/11/02/damaged-frames MOSES SOLLY (1848-1942): The second major prophet of Babelism, after Abednego Coppe, Solly experienced a vision on the battlefield at Gettysburg, while serving under Coppe in the 5th Granite State Volunteer Infantry. After quarreling with Coppe over the significance of his vision of Babel, Solly split off from Coppe’s sect, ... http://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/fictionblog/2007/11/01/cast-of-characters-the-solly-family Gabriel Solly leads a quiet life in the tiny community of New Earth, Oregon Territories (Universal Code Union, Owenite-Orthodox), laboring in the Archives of the New Earth Institute, marking time through the last of his council-service years. His mother, Elizabeth Barchester-Solly, of the rifle family, would like him to assume ... http://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/fictionblog/2007/11/01/cover-blurb I. Damaged frames from the film "Universal History" Dreamers The images come unbidden, and mostly in dreams. The Absent Father, standing in attendance to Our Lady of the Shelter, making love to Our Lady of the Radar Array. Prophecies of or for La Femme, always to the tune of some Thomas Dolby song: ... http://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/fictionblog/2007/11/01/dreamers-i THE DISTRIBUTIVE PASSIONS: A TALE OF THE LAST DAYS OF THE FIRST HARMONIAN REVOLUTION Ascending Wing A child saw a blue butterfly resting on a blade of grass; the butterfly was benumbed by the north wind. The child picked the blade of grass, and the living flower at the end of it, still ... http://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/fictionblog/2007/11/01/intro-the-view-from-harmony "February 5th was DOGS' DOOMSDAY, or general dog killing; when all citizens of the canine brood were to be shot. Many were those that fell on that day.— But from whatever cause it was that they bore a peculiar fondness for this place, as we killed off the old, new ... http://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/fictionblog/2007/06/28/the-man-machine-i