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Wandering Earth and the future of SciFi — the China syndrome?
Chinese science fiction has been up and coming for a while now. The work of Liu Cixin, for example, earned the author (or translator, not sure which) a Hugo Award. (I reviewed and found the Three-Body Solution to be full of interesting ideas but bogged down with poorly written dialogue, unexpected shifts in voice and […]
Apply not to others the cold wind of criticism! “Get your ass to Mars”
Unworldly and unearthly — by definition. A low rumbling at very low frequency, barely discernible at first until shifted up two octaves. Imagine living with this constant mild 15 mph wind all the time. Imagine what the wind sounds like when the global dust storm hits. via Listen here to wind on Mars — the […]
Joseph Octave Lewis: Franco-American Trojan
A few weeks before my mother passed away, I finally had the chance to do what I had wanted to do for years: Visit the sites where my French-Canadian ancestor had been. The problem was, I could only figure out one specific location, and that was only due to guessing based on an old photograph: […]
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First Year Wall (Part 2) – The (not-so voluntary) parent-teacher conference
In mid-April, I went to a parent-teacher conference. Actually, it was more like an enforced PTA committee, which one parent per kid had to attend. As a group. We sat at our kids’ desks (tiny!) and introduced ourselves. This was … Continue reading
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