The Carpet Makers
The Carpet Makers
The following includes light spoilers for Andreas Eschbach’s The Carpet Makers. The story’s mysteries are left intact but the second part might
light pollution
Interpreting Light Pollution
What an absolute atrocity of a title. In one of the later Heinlein novels (in what we'll politely call his "Incest Philosopher" phase and
Houston
Ministry For The Future
Jonathan Strahansuggested—and I agree—that we’ve entered a point in history where all science-fiction set from now into tomorrow must at least acknowledge climate change in order to be relevant
moving
Moving, Comparative Siblingology
I’m thoroughly in moving mode this week and feeling more than normally irritable because of the whole affair. I’ve moved a lot
The Weekly
Overruns in Software Development, The Iron Dragon’s Mother
If you’d like some sense of how the pandemic affected me, consider the following. A Houston friend called me out of the blue
Stars
How to Navigate Home When You’re Lost Out Among The Stars
If you are at all like me—and congruity has brought us at least this close in proximity—you have occasionally found yourself grappling
Ursula K Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin
You can discover Ursula K. Le Guin again and again in your life. As a child reading about Earthsea, as an adult reading about
love
Simple Questionnaires for New Couples
Dating in the modern world can be scary, what with your tinders and grindrs and the looming existential threat of climate change, so it's
Consulting
Engineers and Salesmen
The Elsie landed in ocean comfortably deep, then they used the auxiliaries to bring her close to the shore. She floated high out of
Recent Fairy Tales
Tolkien On Fairy Stories suggests the vastness of Faerie and, though I suspect I am both the unwary and overbold traveler he mentions, let
The Spectacle of the Nearish Future
I have a headache. I grew up reading science-fiction and fantasy, systematically hovering up every drop of the stuff I could find for twenty-five