Nightstand II
It’s always nice to have things easily to hand. From bottom to top again: Yogi Kondo et al. Interstellar Travel and Multi-generation Space Ships. T...
Month: October 2014
Retrospective diagnosis
Attempting to impose a modern medical interpretation upon symptoms that have long since carried away their sufferers is always a chancy affair, and the older th...
Against originality
There is after all no such thing. There simply cannot be! This can be proved from first principles. Words — and therefore sentences, paragraphs, pages, books — ...
The most glamorous fraud in the world
Everyone loves lists, making lists being one of the chief delights of mastering the arts of literacy. The best lists are capricious, free-form, and strongly bel...
The greatest writer in the universe (I)
Is of course Joanna Russ. Where did I first encounter her work? It may have been her book reviews in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in the late sev...