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Friday, June 3, 2016
No Galactic Civilization for You (Part Deux)
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Expanding on my earlier look at one of the motives that might (but probably won't) impel human beings to colonize the galaxy, I'...
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...
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