“What’s all this ‘we’ stuff?” “It was a full Sharing-Water of all the Nest, as you grok—you were there. Mike woke up for it . . . and grokked with you and kept us all together.” Computer geeks have grokked … Continue reading
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(Picture from here.) I’ve been avoiding writing this post for a bit now. Heck, I’ve been avoiding reading Farnham’s Freehold for a while now. There is a whole lot of controversy on that book. While race showed up regularly in his … Continue reading
(Pictures from here and here.) My two favorite Heinlein novels have always been The Door into Summer (1957) and Double Star (1956). The reasons for this have changed over the ears. TDIS was not one of his most popular novels– one critic suggested that this was a novel where … Continue reading
A few years ago, I was on a panel at WisCon called “Military Women: Past, Present and Future.” (It’s amazing how often I end up on panels with names like that.) This panel was held at 8:30 AM on Monday … Continue reading