Category Archives: Brain Waves From Mars

A Microscope is also a Telescope, When Used Properly

Posted on Wednesday, February 1, 2012 by Keith

Over at Charlie Stross’ blog, Cat Valente is writing up storm. This particular tempest is a great swirling discussion about the genre definitions of Science Fiction and Fantasy, but not in the old perennial argument about which authors used which … Continue reading →

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Living to Work

Posted on Friday, September 9, 2011 by Keith

Douglass Rushkoff is making some noise again: I understand we all want paychecks — or at least money. We want food, shelter, clothing, and all the things that money buys us. But do we all really want jobs? We’re living … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on the Royal Wedding

Posted on Wednesday, May 4, 2011 by Keith

The wedding of Prince Humperdink and Princess Buttercup this weekend got overshadowed by our collective blood lust on Sunday but I wanted to try and at least sort out a little of what was going on, at least in my … Continue reading →

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Haunted by the Future

Posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 by Keith

In the first of a 7 part series on the future, James Birdle talks about Hauntology: Hauntology, already old, is about six months away from becoming the title of a column in a Sunday supplement magazine; of going the way … Continue reading →

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Beware of This and That

Posted on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 by Keith

I meant to post this a few weeks ago, when it was still on the front page of 3 Quarks Daily, but it’s one of those timeless essays that you can enjoy even after the Internet ADHD has kicked in: … Continue reading →

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Dickens in a Dirigible

Posted on Thursday, December 16, 2010 by Keith

A few weeks back, Charlie Stross opened a can of virtual worms in this post about the weekpoints of Steampunk as a genre. I observed the hubub from a safe distance (those zeppelin jockies have explosives, man, even if they … Continue reading →

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She Was Dead To Begin With

Posted on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 by Keith

I was alone that morning in the library when the strange woman returned the book that did not belong. That sentence has been in my head (and on paper) for about six years now. It’s the first line to a … Continue reading →

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You Got Martians in My Novel!

Posted on Monday, October 26, 2009 by Keith

So, what happens when you spend an incredibly lazy Sunday laying around watching TV and alternately reading Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters and The Martian Chronicles? You wake up with totally hair-brained schemes, that’s what. This one involves NaNoWriMo … Continue reading →

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