Music by Philip Glass
I generally have a couple of books going at any given time. One that I’m reading myself and one that I’m reading to Susan. Today Susan and I stared a new one. Actually, it’s been on the to-read list...
View ArticleNational Novel Writing Month
It seems like everyone I know is writing novels this month as part of the National Novel Writing Month event. The idea is that you write a 50,000 word first draft during November. You have to start...
View ArticleThe Andro-Entitling Man
In the 1897 issues of Pearson’s Weekly there appeared a serialized story by H. G. Wells. It concerned a scientist who had developed and tested on himself a method of altering the refractive index of...
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Common as Air
One of many inventions Benjamin Franklin open sourced, an array of Leyden jars he named a “battery” Having just received several new books as Christmas gifts, I’m reminded that books I’ve already...
View ArticleRIP Jack Williamson
Jack Williamson, aka the ‘Dean of SF’, is dead at age 98 (see also the NY Times obit). Williams coined the word Android in 1936 and was the first to use it in its modern sense in his 1948 novel, …...
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