• Arcane: League of Legends

    We don’t get to choose our families. We don’t get to choose the times in which we live. The best we can hope is that the times bind us closer to our brothers or sisters rather than cleave us apart. At the heart of Arcane: League of Legends (Netflix 2021-2024) is a story of a family living in divisive times. In particular, the story lovingly portrays sisters Violet and Powder…

  • Man with Beard

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  • Starting things

    My post last week of the video about HyperCard has got me thinking about a coding project. I’d like to see a web of personal sites develop that interact in a very HyperCard-like fashion. When I was working for one of the leaders in online education, I began experimenting with simple components that could be combined to create complex interactive experiences. I think it’s time to return to that experimentation.…

  • Woman in a Scarf

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  • The Face of Evil

    A chess match, played by two brilliant but flawed opponents. Two narcissists hoping to manipulate the other into helping them achieve their own ends. For Hermann Göring, the goal is to cheat the hangman’s noose and show the world that the Nazi Reich was a just cause. For Dr. Douglas Kelly, the goal was to unmask evil, to show what made Nazi monsters unique, absolving humanity of their fear that…

  • Andy Serkis

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SCIENCE FICTION – DOUBLE FEATURE

Reality is weird. The science that reflects our understanding of reality is weird. The very mission of science fiction is to reflect that weirdness in ways that fill the reader with wonder. Science fiction writers aren’t here to repeat comfortable tropes. We’re here to make the reader confront the unabashed nuttiness of reality and their place in it.

E.W. Doc Parris

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