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Thursday, May 26, 2016
No Galactic Civilization for You
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A recent video by Kurzgesagt asked if modern physics supplied a boundary, an absolute limit, to human expansion into the universe. The ans...
Saturday, May 14, 2016
Them Bones: The Great Old Ones
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(For the previous entry in this series, click here .) Them Bones , 40-41, 44-46, 65-69: After spending a few days in ...
Monday, April 4, 2016
Anomalies Accumulate, Storm Clouds Congregate
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Them Bones , 47-49, 60-63 ( For the previous entry in this series, click here . ) Back in the 1929 storyline, some new crew me...
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Microgames and Microworlds
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One of the attractions of microgames, as I noted in my entry on Ogre , was their creation of internally-consistent little worlds for the pl...
Thursday, February 25, 2016
In the Realm of the Three-Dollar Cybertank: Metagaming's OGRE
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For sci-fi fans of a certain age (middle age), the word “ogre” conjures at least one very specific memory: a pocket-sized game containing a...
Sunday, January 24, 2016
The Villages of the Sun
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For the previous entry in this series, click here . Modern Greek, which Madison Leake learned in the Cyprus War, was not a common langua...
Friday, December 25, 2015
The SFF Year in Review: 2015
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Prolific SFF writer Tanith Lee left our mortal plane, at age 67. Linda Nagata completed her Red trilogy, demonstrating that it is still ...
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