Tag: Science Fiction
Dick
Xy and I got to see the Philip K. Dick robot at White Linen Night. It was pretty cool. The back of Dick’s head was off, exposing a bunch of circuitry and animating mechanisms. This detracted somewhat from the verisimilitude but added an element of humorous absurdity, especially when the artist, David Hanson, explained to […]
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I’m sure by now, anyone who cares has seen this article: “A Whitewashed Earthsea – How the Sci Fi Channel wrecked my books” by Ursula K. Le Guin. But there’s the link in case you missed it. I read A Wizard of Earthsea to Xy this summer, in anticipation of the miniseries. Yet somehow I […]
Read More → Whitewashed EarthseaThe Library of Babel
My work on interlibrary loan and remote database querying is finally starting to pay off. I’m happy to announce that you can now retrieve a page from the Library of Babel at borges.rox.com. Working with such a large data set is a challenge, and there are a few bugs. I can specify the wall, the […]
Read More → The Library of BabelThe Uplift War
Title: The Uplift War Author: David Brin Published: 1987 I would never recommend The Uplift War to my friends who are skeptical about science fiction. It has too many conventions peculiar to the genre. There are aliens of many races, psychic powers, galactic empires, robots, ray guns and spaceships that travel faster than light. It’s […]
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