Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Worldbuilding From Reality Part 12 - What You Learned As A Kid

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Worldbuilding From Reality Part 12 What You Learned As A Kid  Previous parts in the Worldbuilding From Reality series: https://alien...
Sunday, December 29, 2019

Heinous Hacks

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There are certain times of day, and certain light conditions under which persons of a certain age with either glaucoma or cataracts or epile...
Thursday, December 26, 2019

Discontinuities

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Happy midwinter holidays! I hope everybody who celebrates Christmas had a merry one. One of my most thrilling gifts was a DVD set of IN THE ...
Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Worldbuilding from Reality Part 11 - Worldbuilding Does Not a Story Make

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Worldbuilding from Reality Part 11 Worldbuilding Does Not a Story Make by Jacqueline Lichtenberg Previous posts in the Worldbuild...
Sunday, December 22, 2019

Smart Christmas

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For those who visit Pennsylvania and are unfortunate enough to be stopped by the police, the good news is that the authorities in that State...
Thursday, December 19, 2019

The Holiday Stories of Connie Willis

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If you feel in the mood for winter-holiday-themed stories, pick up A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS (2017), by Connie Willis. This volume is an expansio...
Saturday, December 14, 2019

All About Face...And Image

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This last week, the theme has been legal reversals (about face), about amusing, face-changing apps that come embedded with hidden dangers, a...
Thursday, December 12, 2019

Finding Time to Write

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Marion Zimmer Bradley recommended stay-at-home motherhood as the perfect job for a writer, because writing can be performed in short bursts ...
Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Reviews 50 Finder by Suzanne Palmer

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Reviews 50  Finder by Suzanne Palmer  Space adventure experienced by fully realized Characters meddling in "the affairs of Wiza...
Saturday, December 07, 2019

Who Sells Your Phone Number ... And Inaccurate And Defamatory Info About You?

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When was the last time you "DuckDucked" your own phone number? (Apologies to Duck Duck Go, but I cannot bring myself to type ...
Thursday, December 05, 2019

Caring About Things Is Cool

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In 2005, country singer Jo Dee Messina musically proclaimed, "My Give-a-Damn's Busted." (I still wince at typing that phrase o...
Tuesday, December 03, 2019

Reviews 49 - Bucking the System

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Reviews 49 Bucking the System Cry Pilot + Sequel Defiance squared - no, cubed - is the essential quality of a) a Romance Heroine, a...
Sunday, December 01, 2019

Of Letters, Lies, And Legacies

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Among the movies showing free this long, holiday weekend is "Can You Forgive Me?" based on the true story of an author who became ...
Thursday, November 28, 2019

Happy Thanksgiving

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Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it today! This will be the first Thanksgiving weekend since sometime in the 1990s when we won'...
Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Mysteries of Pacing Part 7 - Art of Persuasion

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Mysteries of Pacing Part 7 Art of Persuasion by Jacqueline Lichtenberg Previous entries in the Mysteries of Pacing series: Par...
Sunday, November 24, 2019

What's In A ... Face?

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Much ado about...  faces is my takeaway from this week's legal (and copyleft activist) blogs. Not that "faces" equate to nothi...
Thursday, November 21, 2019

Good Art, Problematic Creators

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column discusses the renaming of the John W. Campbell Award. We might also mention (although Doctorow doesn...
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Worldbuilding From Reality Part 10 Does It Matter If Arousal Is Gender Specific?

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Worldbuilding From Reality Part 10 Does It Matter If Arousal Is Gender Specific?  Previous parts in the Worldbuilding From Reality se...