A Song for the Barren
“Sing, barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because… Keep Reading
Remnants
He had been drifting on the outskirts of oblivion for a long time. Left with only his own thoughts and his relentless… Keep Reading
Revisiting Robert Heinlein: Methuselah's Children
One of Heinlein’s early novels, Methuselah’s Children, is the first to introduce his “Future History,” a series of interrelated books and stories… Keep Reading
Shell Game
“I’m already locked inside a trillion cells. What difference does one more make?” He shouted this from his cage, the words slipping… Keep Reading
The Heinlein Hypocrisy Part II: The Superior God
Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a… Keep Reading
Vanish on the Instant
I. No one will know that I’m leaving, just that I’m gone. I carry the final box from my office to my… Keep Reading
Revisiting Orson Scott Card's Children of the Mind
Orson Scott Card’s Ender Saga may be one of the most varied book series written to date. The first in the series,… Keep Reading
By the Light of Day
The host returned to consciousness in a flutter of dark eyelashes and dilation of pupils. Were it not for the familiar sound… Keep Reading
The Heinlein Hypocrisy Part I: What Words Mean
“God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent — it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of… Keep Reading
Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks
Many years ago, a friend of mine who knows about these sorts of things handed me a book and said “Here, you… Keep Reading
Worlds Enough
I know exactly what Socrates meant and he fucking meant it literally. It’s just that most people aren’t smart enough, or not… Keep Reading
The Realist Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Before the quantum revolution, the scientific depiction of the natural world was a deterministic one, i.e., once all the initial parameters of… Keep Reading
