The Many Rants of Larry Russwurm- Are Plants Drunk Off the Excess Carbon Dioxide?
- The Articler
- In the Presence of Dentyne
- The Space Yoyo
- Pieing Lou Ferrigno
- Light at the End of the World
- H. G. Wells, the Teenage Sidekick of the Father of Science Fiction
- The Right is Right, But the Left is More Right: A Mathematical Proof
- The Ads About Nothing
- Newfoundland Houndstooth
Tag Archives: Larry Niven
C’mon, High School Teachers, Teach Sensawunda
For this post, I was just going to bitch that the fiction gatekeepers in high school, the teachers, seem to ignore genre fiction. But then I thought back to my education more carefully and realized that grade 11 was a … Continue reading
Posted in Science Fiction, SF Criticism, Wee Bit O' Humour, Writing
Tagged 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea, Asimov, Bradbury, Dystopia, Fahrenheit 451, genre fiction, H.G. Wells, Hari Seldon, high school english teachers, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne, Larry Niven, literature, optimism, Orwell, pessimism, psychohistory, Ringworld, science fiction, sensawunda, sense of wonder, The Foundation Series, Utopia
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Polymath as Remedy
I hate novels about writing. I hate songs about music. I hate movies or television about Hollywood. I hate art that asks “what is art?” The first three of these were developed by me as a simple member of the … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Art, Humourless, Music, Stage and Screen, Writing
Tagged abstract art, anatomy, art should be about something, David, Hollywood, Inconstant Moon, Isaac Asimov, John Grisham, Journalistic curiosity, Larry Niven, Laurel L. Russwurm, M, modern art, novel, Paul McCartney, polymath, Renaissance art, Seinfeld, two Uniques, what is art?
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