Sunday, August 03, 2025

Courtesy For Everyman and His Bowels

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Last time, I discussed courtesy and punctuation. Today, I should like to discuss courtesy, enunciation, and also efficient subject lines. Le...
Friday, August 01, 2025

Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Codex by Douglas Preston by Karen S. Wiesner

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  Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Codex by Douglas Preston by Karen S. Wiesner   Be aware that ...
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Cozy Fantasy by Sarah Beth Durst

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Recently I've gotten into the emergent subgenre of "cozy fantasy" -- for example, LEGENDS AND LATTES and its prequel, BOOKSHOP...
Sunday, July 27, 2025

Dangling Parts of Speech

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Whenever I see "dangling" written, I think of the gardeners' conversation in Shakespeare's " Richard II " when o...
Friday, July 25, 2025

Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Wyman Ford Series by Douglas Preston by Karen S. Wiesner

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  Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Wyman Ford Series by Douglas Preston by Karen S. Wiesner   Be awar...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Cyborg Brain in a Box

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Are we moving slightly closer to the sapient AI entities of science fiction? "A new type of computer that combines regular silicon-base...
Saturday, July 19, 2025

That's Deceptive

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Last week, my condo might have been "brushed" by someone other than the janitor, and I learned a new naughty word. Two packages ar...
Friday, July 18, 2025

Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells by Karen S. Wiesner

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  Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells by Karen S. Wiesner     ...
Thursday, July 17, 2025

Breaking Encryption

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Cory Doctorow begins his latest LOCUS column with a discussion of technorealism and "nontechnical technothrillers": Rubber-Hose ...
Friday, July 11, 2025

Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Time Machine by H. G. Wells by Karen S. Wiesner

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  Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Time Machine by H. G. Wells by Karen S. Wiesner   Be aware th...
Thursday, July 10, 2025

Animal Gender-Flipping

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A list of some animals with reproductive patterns that deconstruct the male-female binary: Animals That Can Change Their Sex Many can sw...
Sunday, July 06, 2025

Ama-Scam (and the 16 billion leaks)

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It's not a great leap from Amazon scam, to Ama-Scam (not a word) to Abacab (also allegedly not a word) which is my ear worm for the las...
Friday, July 04, 2025

Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Riptide by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child by Karen S. Wiesner

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  Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Riptide by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child by Karen S. Wiesner   ...
Thursday, July 03, 2025

Bad Advice for Writers

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Searching on this topic recently, I came upon two thought-provoking lists (doubtless two among many). The general message of both is that as...
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