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Category Archives: Writing
H. G. Wells, the Teenage Sidekick of the Father of Science Fiction
I saw Robert J. Sawyer give a lecture on TV Ontario a couple weeks ago. In it, he called Mary Shelley the progenitor of science fiction. No arguments there. He also said the spur of this entire article; he called … Continue reading
This Website – Now Half Off
This has been a long time coming. You see I happened to notice a long while ago that the natural rate for the Many Rants of Larry Russwurm post was about once a week. In a week I can usually … Continue reading
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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NaNoWriMo or Something Like It
For those of you who don’t know, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. You can find out more by typing nanowrimo.org into your browser or into a search engine. The month in question is always November and registering makes … Continue reading
The Earning Dead
Copyright monopolies vary widely from place to place on this Earth. But the vast majority of countries offer these monopolies and I would say that the United States system of life of the artist plus 70 years (it’s actually more … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Humour, Politics, Science Fiction, Writing
Tagged Asimov, clawing back to life, conservative bonanza, copyright, copyright monopolies, Isaac Asimov, life plus 70 years, marriage 70 years beyond death, progressive trouble, propagating the dead, the earning dead, voting while dead
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All the World’s a Factory Floor
All the world’s a factory floor, and all the men and women merely robots. They don’t think they’re robots, nay they are far superior, For they have emotions, the thing that separates man from machine. If they are sad then … Continue reading
Someone Forgot His Oath This Morning
The Green Lantern plummeted out of the sky quickly. Suddenly his ring made a giant green bouncy castle and that is where he landed. The gathered scientists just coughed and kicked stones, waiting for the superhero to stop bouncing. Finally … Continue reading
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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