hunters, farmers, and time
In a wonderful review-essay in the most recent issue of The New Atlantis, Adam Roberts argues that farmers were the...
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let joy be unconfined …
… because there’s a new Adam Roberts novel! No one has yet said to me, “Of course you praise Adam...
Topsy-turvy, Tono-Bungay
In his blog-through of the works of H. G. Wells, Adam Roberts has reached Tono-Bungay, and there’s much food for...
things and creatures, conscience and personhood
Yesterday I read Jeff VanderMeer’s creepy, disturbing, uncanny, and somehow heart-warming new novel Borne, and it has...
mobility, bicycles, cyborgs
I’ve mentioned that Adam Roberts is blogging his way through the voluminous works of H. G. Wells, and I’ve found...
Text Patterns is back from the dead!
I’m back and probably not any better than ever! This post is a bit of a catch-all catch-up before I write a longer...
the fragility of platforms
In a comment on my previous post, Adam Roberts writes: In terms of human intermediation, facebook and twitter are...
Tolkien’s riddles
The Riddles of the Hobbit is a riddling book about a riddling writer, a philological exercise concerning the works of a...
Pynchon’s riddles
In the opening chapters of Against the Day Pynchon hints at certain oddities in the space/time continuum of the book....
accommodation and perversion
I wrote recently that I see world-building in SF and fantasy as coming in two chief varieties, the speculative and the...