Reading
On books, reading, and writers.
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Kim Stanley Robinson and Ken MacLeod: Two sci fi greats in the same room
Kim Stanley Robinson and Ken McLeod are two of the most interesting contemporary science fiction writers. Robinson’s Mars Trilogy and MacLeod’s Intrusion are among my…
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A Lucky Guess
A colleague and I were looking over a graph with same data he had produced. I didn’t understand it, so I asked him about a…
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Ninety-Two in the Shade
This is Thomas McGuane’s most well-known novel and the first I’ve read. It captures 1970s Key West, a place and period that I’ve recently encountered…
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Oh I Am Sick of Brick and Stone
A wind’s in the heart of me, a fire’s in my heels, I am tired of brick and stone and rumbling wagon-wheels; I hunger for…