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...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012

"...you think that you will never make it home."

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Bright Lights, Big City is written in the second person, present tense. Both times I've read it, I found this jarring and distracting ...
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Thursday, March 8, 2012

What is it like to be a coke-addled bat?

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My limited experience discussing intro-philosophy standards with fiction writers suggests that fiction writers, as a group, are especially t...
Saturday, January 28, 2012

I was there: spy novel edition

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Over the summer, Crystal and I met up with my parents in London. We stayed in the Hyde Park Rooms in Sussex Gardens, about 100 yards south ...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

We're doomed: authorship question edition

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Ads have started popping up on campus for Anonymous , a new movie advancing the stupid idea at the Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, who ...
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