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Posted on April 1, 2016September 5, 2017

On Borges’ Discovery of the Internet Before it Existed

This is a fantastic post which manages to marry my interests in Borges and sleep/insomnia very effectively! Borges’ “The Library of Babel” is usually cited as a conceptual precursor to…

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Posted on November 23, 2015November 24, 2015

Review of The Sword and Sorcery Anthology, edited by David G. Hartwell and Jacob Weisman, SF Site, 2012

Inadvertently, the last two posts here have provoked reflections on how I fell out of love with fantasy (and a somewhat lesser extent science fiction) – so this review continues that theme. I…

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Posted on November 23, 2015

Review of “The Roberts” by Michael Blumlein from SF Site, 2012

Following my reflections of how I fell out of love with SF/Fantasy as a teenager , here is an example of a sturdy little book review for SF Site of the kind…

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Posted on November 21, 2015January 9, 2019

Alt Kafka: Franz Kafka and Alternate History. Blog post on Alt Hist site, March 13, 2013

The original post is subtitled “Franz Kafka in Alternate History”. Re-reading the post I wonder if “and” is more precise, although as the bulk of the piece is a review…

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