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Oops, and The Year of the Flood 13 Sep 2010 | 01:16 am
OK, next time I should do my research before posting! :-( After looking more closely at the Blogger settings, I've realized that having "Followers" and having a restricted group of people "follow" you...
Starships & art 30 Aug 2010 | 05:04 am
If you haven't already, check out Zachary Kendal's Silk for Calde blog, where all sorts of interesting things are going on. For example, a fascinating series of posts on the "generation starship" trop...
Changes 24 Aug 2010 | 02:12 am
I see it's been about five months since I last posted something... That was partly because I was doing school work and graduating from university. And partly because I was making big life decisions an...
American Narnia? 31 Mar 2010 | 06:07 am
I guess being the president would have its perks. Rather than getting taken on a bunch of boring official tours, you'd get to look at the really cool stuff. For example, President Obama recently inspe...
Jewish Narnia? 5 Mar 2010 | 01:06 pm
Here's an interesting review essay by Michael Weingrad. In the course of his piece Weingrad asserts that fantasy as a genre has attracted few Jewish writers, and ponders why that might be. Of course a...
Atwood on theological narrative in SF 1 Feb 2010 | 07:16 am
This is five years old, but I think it's worth citing. Margaret Atwood muses about science fiction: More than one commentator has mentioned that science fiction as a form is where theological narrati...
A million alien Gospels 9 Jan 2010 | 01:48 pm
But in the eternities Doubtless we shall compare together, hear A million alien Gospels, in what guise He trod the Pleiades, the Lyre, the Bear. O be prepared my soul! To read the inconceivable, to s...
So that's what they mean by "He ascended into heaven..." 12 Dec 2009 | 03:33 pm
Yes, a photographer has located Jesus' rocketship here in my home town.
Procrastination 27 Nov 2009 | 06:19 am
...is what's enabling me to write this post. That and my guilt over not posting for almost five months. I don't imagine anyone's been waiting on tenterhooks, but I do feel like I should say: I'm not d...
Lazy, fun summer days 6 Jul 2009 | 05:36 am
...are finally here. My "Russian History Since 1855" class finished in mid-June. It was quite interesting. So much rapid (often forced) social and technological change, and so much pain and suffering!...
