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Tuesday, June 15, 2021
"Walking into a major league stadium is like no other experience in the world."
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I've never managed to cultivate an interest in baseball, but I often enjoy baseball writing. I finally sat down with Paul Auster's b...
Saturday, April 14, 2018
Sit as kings in your desires.
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The only extant manuscript written in Shakespeare's hand is an insert to a play titled Sir Thomas More. Shakespeare has More deliver a...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
SETI and the drive to contact intelligent life
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I've been reading lots of papers in space ethics. One of the early texts is Beyond Spaceship Earth: Environmental Ethics and the Solar ...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Adrian Mole, possible blameless bystander
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From the Friday, February 26th entry in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13 3/4 : My general physique is improving. I think the back...
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Saturday, March 8, 2014
Chad Oliver on animals: the only known life in the universe
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Chad Oliver's "King of the Hill" is set in a near future in which Earth's environment has been almost completely destroyed...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
A gripping story, avoided
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Jack Williamson's "With Folded Hands" appears in SFWA's Science Fiction Hall of Fame , marking it as one of the most widel...
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Cosmopolis and two kinds of surprise
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I recently read Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis . I pretty much hated it, and it's easy to identify why: there are no rules structuring t...
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