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Sunday, February 26, 2017
Dystopia and Dissolution: Totalitarian Fragility in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
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(Spoilers ahead, in case you were wondering.) For all its reputation as a masterpiece of dystopian horror, a vision of an endless a...
Thursday, January 26, 2017
Worlds in Abundance: After 40 Years, Traveller Remains Compelling
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Those of us who grew up in the era of tabletop role-playing games often find that the scenes and characters those games created occupy more...
Saturday, December 31, 2016
John Christopher's FIREBALL: Rome Endures, but at What Cost?
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In my youth I rarely encountered the idea or practice of alternate history. The alt-history storytelling tradition remained an obscure subse...
Monday, November 21, 2016
Does Not Stephen Baxter Fill You with a Sense of Wonder?
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Scifi readers appreciate good writing as much as anyone, but usually give it lower priority than what they call “ a sense of wonder:” a w...
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