Or both. One of the lovely things about science fiction is that you can be wildly entertained yet have your paradigm blown wide open. An artist’s goal should be to help people change how they see the world so that the familiar is weird and the weird is familiar. In that change, the audience revises … Continue reading
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Creative Science
One thing I love about the scientific community is how amazingly creative everyone is. The stereotype of the boring scientist who doesn’t think past “his” work is not only a stereotype, I don’t even know how it could have become one. Every scientist I know, pursues a creative focus from brewing award-winning beer to writing … Continue reading
How to Get Nothing Done Over a Weekend When You Have Deadlines
Pick up Greg van Eekhout’s California Bones Trilogy (that’s actually the title of the first book, but I don’t think the series has a name). I love that these books are so California even in a world where people eat each other for the magic in their bones. I read all three in two days. So yeah, … Continue reading
Naked Light
On rare rainy nights, Melindia Carter would take off her wig and dance naked in the cul de sac. The mercurial shine of rain in the street lights made her body glow, and the drops, like diamonds, shimmered on snaking arms before being flung to gutter. None of us who lived on Williamsburg Circle ever … Continue reading
