Thursday, July 28, 2011

The Alien Past

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"The past is a foreign country" (from a 1953 novel, THE GO-BETWEEN, by British author L. P. Hartley). Recently I felt struck by th...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Big Love Sci-Fi Part VI: Unconditional Love and Science Fiction - a

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Last week we looked at Love and Romance, using thumbnail definitions from Astrology for Venus and Neptune. Here's a list of previous p...
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Sunday, July 24, 2011

Dog Training For Alien Characterization

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My beach reads this summer included "It's Me Or The Dog" by Victoria Stilwell. I wasn't far into the book when I saw the p...
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Thursday, July 21, 2011

The Curse of Hyperconnectivity

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Here's an article with some provocative cautionary remarks about multitasking and constant accessibility: Creative Kryptonite Hypotheses...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Big Love Sci-Fi Part V: Modesty, The Scrimmage Line of Big Love

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This series started with Part I Sex Without Borders and continued each Tuesday concluding with Part VIII on August 9th, though we may be bac...
Thursday, July 14, 2011

Self-Driving Cars

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Nevada has passed legislation authorizing the development of regulations to allow driverless cars on that state's roads: Driverless Cars...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Big Love Sci-Fi Part IV: Mystery-Detective Romance

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What strange bedfellows I have for you to study today! But first the list of previous posts in this series: Here's the first post in...
Thursday, July 07, 2011

One Entity, One Vote?

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This past Sunday the local paper printed a feature that asked a wide selection of people what they liked about America and what they would c...
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Tuesday, July 05, 2011

Big Love Sci-Fi: Part III How Big Can Love Be in Science Fiction?

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In this Big Love Sci-Fi series we've been talking about the place of sexual activity in Romance, Love, and science fiction. Here's...
Thursday, June 30, 2011

Zombies Rule?

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Several years ago I heard a talk by Nina Auerbach, author of OUR VAMPIRES, OURSELVES. She discussed the popularity of vampires in the media ...
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Big Love Sci-Fi: Part 2, The Drama of Illness In Fiction

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Last week we began a series of discussions I titled Big Love Sci-Fi after a comment by Heather Massey over at Galaxy Express. http://alien...