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...
literary fiction and climate change, revisited
Here we have Siddhartha Deb making precisely the same inexplicable error that Amitav Ghosh, whom he quotes, made last...
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...
the tragedy of angelism
Consider this the mirror-image of my previous post. In Lost in the Cosmos — about which I wrote an enthusiastic...
fleshers and stoics
I’m going to be traveling for the next few days, by automobile, and will therefore be mostly away from the internet....
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...
The Thing of the Year
For many Decembers now I have looked forward with great anticipation to John Wilson’s list of his favorite books...
on re-reading Le Guin
I’ve recently re-read Ursula Le Guin’s most famous novels, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) and The Dispossessed...