Just a Sci-Fi Kid Like Me

High winds here, which means that the only one getting any sleep in the house is Rey. (Rey is our new puppy we adopted a month ago.) Bilbo has been going nuts so I've decided to camp out with him in our interior bathroom where the whistling isn't noticeable. The alert expires at 5am. Yep, I'll be productive later today.

Anyway, have I mentioned I've become obsessed with Hamilton? Because I am. I even went and got a copy of the big fat biography of him the musical is based on, which is a lot of fun to read because it's clear how closely Lin-Manuel Miranda was working with it as he wrote. I'm really tempted to just start striking out the actual chapter titles and writing the song titles in instead. I basically just finished "Right-Hand Man" and am at the start of "A Winter's Ball."

A random thought I have had on the subject: I think I kind of consider Hamilton as a historical AU because of how it re-envisions history and race (through 1) purposefully casting POC for the Founding Fathers and 2) given that the only main white character is King George, it kind of re-situates the history of America, Britain, and "freedom"). I'm wondering if people have thoughts on that? I'm also thinking of a piece from io9 ages ago arguing that Sherlock counts as SF because of how it was essentially presenting science and scientific methods years before they were adopted in forensics, as kind of a source of comparison in how something can be SFF but also, not be. So yeah, thoughts?