Starships! Were meant to fly! Let's do this! One more time!

I blogged this over on my wordpress site, but seriously EVERYONE NEEDS TO WATCH IT. It made me remember why I fell in love with science fiction in the first place. And oh, did I ever fall in love with science fiction. SPAAAACE! BOOM! Ships and stars and weirder wonders, and the great hope that we might still be human, and humane, and ourselves, against all that endless dark.

Oh bright rain, brave clouds, oh stars,
oh stars.

Two thousand four hundred fires
and uncharted, unstudied,
the hours, the hours, the hours.

-- Sofia Samatar, "Girl Hours."


(Video via Aoife O’Riordan at Consider The Tea Cosy, an admirable Irish feminist.)

Also via O'Riordan, this time on Twitter, another video, not quite as excellent but still joyous: