Dec 29
There are a few things that people shouldn’t do unless they can’t help it. Unless they were born to do it. Two of those are writing and teaching, and I am afflicted with both. If you’ve read my profile anywhere, you know that I’ve been writing for a long, long time. I’m not even …
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Jul 05
The Bergenholm remains a fascinating piece of technology. I intend to write a blog post about the various technologies that have worked their way into science fiction to allow us to reach the distant stars in more than 1000 human lifetimes. There are several of them: hyperspace, subspace, jump ships, warp bubbles, wormholes, even merely …
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Apr 15
I wrote in an earlier post that Dream of Mirror Online (DOMO) was the best MMORPG in the world. That may be true, but let’s qualify that statement a bit and say that it’s the best MMORPG designed for adults. The best for children absolutely has to be Wizard 101. That said, DOMO has been …
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Mar 19
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” — Albert Einstein How shortsighted of you, Dr. Einstein, as imagination encircles the cosmos! Actually, Einstein had more to say about imagination. “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination.” That boosts my ego, because my imagination is over the …
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Dec 20
We all know what hard sci-fi is, don’t we? It’s that … well…. I thought I knew what it was until I visited KindleBoards, which I don’t do nearly as often as I should, and checked in on a thread I’d commented on. Another member had said that he read mostly hard science fiction, biographies, …
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