“In Robert’s Memory” started out with the idea of a sort of Titanic in space, awaiting rescue after a calamity. The pun of a title may have been the germ of the story – but I’m not sure. This is a story about a ship’s computer whose memory becomes contaminated by human inhabitants. In a … Continue reading
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Meandering Monday about Making Sense of Reality
It’s hard to live a life where you need to make decisions all day – every day. We have all sorts of habits and traditions that we use to take those decisions away, so we can exert our brains on WHAT’S IMPORTANT. There are people who lay out their clothes for the entire week so … Continue reading
Meandering Monday about Knowing What’s Real
I rewatched Dark Star recently – there’s a spot where they’re trying to talk the bomb from detonating itself in the bomb bay (it’s a smart bomb.) They cause the bomb to question reality because it can’t be certain of the data it’s receiving from the outside. How reliable is that data? How do you … Continue reading
Meandering Monday about the Problems with Social Media
I need to be careful what I watch and pay attention to as a writer. If I spend too much time thinking and reading on a topic, I start seeing everything through that lens. I’m very interested in national politics, and it’s a very hard thing for me to turn the radio off and stop … Continue reading
Meandering Monday about a Fantasy about Men and Women
So I’m on book four of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time Series (The Shadow Rising.) At first, I chose it because what I’d heard of it came across as Epic Fantasy, with the crown passing (at least in one reviewer’s opinion) from J.R.R.Tolkien to Jordan. I needed something to read that was more like … Continue reading
Meandering Monday about How They’ve Changed My Television
WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE, television shows were on a fairly limited number of broadcast stations, and if you wanted to see an episode, you darn well better be home to watch it when it aired, because otherwise you might never see it again, unless you were lucky and it went into syndication. No VHSs, … Continue reading
Meandering Monday about the Dangers of Magic
Magic is dangerous. (No, this is not a caution against trying to cast spells at home, although you should be careful about that, too.) I’m done reading A Storm of Swords, and I’m taking a brief break from that world by reading R.A.Salvatore’s The Dame. I’ll return to the land of Westros afterwards. A writer … Continue reading
