I spent over forty hours traveling to and from Hong Kong last week, and I found myself unable to sleep on the trip home. Overall, I did some academic work, read a good chunk of a history of the Qin and Han empires, and then...
science fiction
The Player of Games is a staple of my "Science Fiction and Politics" syllabus. I've guided discussions of the book at least ten times. So I'll just say this: when.
His Dark Materials, Season 1, "Betrayal," Bad Wolf Productions, HBO Stephanie Burt has an interesting piece in The New Yorker about the multiverses, fiction, and popular culture. If Borges were.
Hey everyone. Just dropping a note to say "I'm still alive and I haven't given up on Lawyers, Guns and Money." This semester has basically defeated me. I simply cannot finish the work that I need to do. Teaching a big into course for the...
Cesare Maccari [Public domain] In this 2007 book, Halting State, Charles Stross describes a near future in which the internet makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for ordinary people.
Creative news from yours truly: my essay on (accidentally) queer alien sex in big bucks science fiction media has been published in the debut issue of the new feminist punk.
I dislike science fiction as a genre. While there are a couple of science fiction films I do like, they are not of the norm of the genre (Solaris, La Jetée) and I simply don't have time for reading science fiction because I find the...
Danger Room has convened a symposium re-evaluating Imperial strategy and military performance at the Battle of Hoth. My own contribution was simply a translation (with the assistance of former Patterson.
One of y'all sent me an email asking why I didn't argue with Jeff Goldstein anymore. I replied that I just haven't thought about him in a long time, but.
This is going to make it very difficult to mount a credible counter-offensive against the Gamilons: Researchers have been studying the Titanic’s remains since they were discovered resting more than two miles beneath the ocean surface. And they’ve found that the ship has been not-so-slowly...
1) A small puppy, if walked real hard first, will sit quietly outside long enough for a decent taping with no unseemly background noise. (I had worried about that.) 2).
The best event I attended at ISA this year wasn’t the panel on pirates, nor the panel on war law, nor the panel on blogging, nor the gender and security.