So Miss Jiwaku is taking a holiday from work, after leaving her last job. She said she wanted to try do at least one new thing a week, and I suggested that while she’s seen me brew up beers for a while now, she’s never done it herself. Why not try brewing a beer? We talked a bit about possible styles and flavors and so on, and she settled upon a stout. At which point I started formulating the recipe, and figured that given her love of lightly and strongly soured beers alike (she’s crazy about Duchess de Bourgogne and …
Month: June 2011
The Caryatids, by Bruce Sterling
I’ve had The Caryatids on my shelf for a while now, and have been trying to set aside time to read it. After all, Bruce Sterling was a formative influence on my own idea of SF, whether you can see it in my own writing. In a conversation the other night, somehow I kept ending up talking about his work with our guest, a futurist. The funny thing is, when I talked about Sterling’s work, it was his ideas I kept mentioning, and my references to The Caryatids was no exception: I talked about the three big loci of power …