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Whiskey and Warfare
Whiskey and Warfare: The Team Huntress Flights “Old Woman’s War” is how I characterized Whiskey and Warfare by E.M. Hamill when someone asked me what I was reading for SPSFC4. While I found John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War sort of meh, this book feels like a more mature, more heartfelt exploration of similar ground. Given…
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EAT
EAT: ΣΔΤ Book One: Sigma “Night of the living furries” is how a character describes their situation a little more than midway through Jesse Brown’s EAT. I laughed when I read that line and I also nodded. That’s a good description of the basic premise, though replace cute or weirdly sexualized furries with the sleek,…
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THE REALISTS OF A LARGER REALITY
Is there a science fiction author more akin to literature than Ursula K. Le Guin? I can’t think of any. There are others that may rise to her level. Octavia E. Butler, certainly. One day, I think N.K. Jemisin will have that luster. I struggle to think of a male writer with the same claim…
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CORDWAINER SMITH – THE SCI-FI MASTER YOU’VE PROBABLY NEVER HEARD OF
When I was a teenager, my brother introduced me to a set of books by a writer with a goofy name, Cordwainer Smith. The first was a short story collection called The Instrumentality of Mankind, and the other was a novel called Norstrilia. My mind was blown. These stories, published in the 50s and 60s,…
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THE CASE FOR ASTROLOGY
But, that has nothing to do with Astrology, I hear the rational people shouting. And I have to disagree. Astrology is just a calendar. What stars are visible between December 22nd and January 19th determine my sign. In modern times we call them months — but it’s the same thing. Rational people will tell you…
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MACHINE LEARNING
I started drawing when I was 3. Writing started later, but my earliest surviving stories were from age 6. Photography started in sophomore year in high school when my father and I built a darkroom in our basement, and my mother bought me a cheap Russian SLR. Code didn’t enter the scene until I was…
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