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• Retro tech2025-12-01
  I am reading Translation State by Ann Leckie (sequel to the Imperial Radch trilogy 1 2 3 I favorably reviewed, fucking hell, ten years ago). It is a far-flung high-tech space opera published in 2024, near-Culture levels of tech, or at the very least, well beyond Star Trek with warp capability etc. It’s a lovely… Read more: Retro tech
• Through a lens familiarly2025-11-26
  A continuation, I reckon, of a re-read of Stephen Fry’s Greek myths, certainly not because Hades II had a recent full release or anything so puerile as that, though this time I’m all the way at the Odyssey. Telemachus, son-of-Odysseus, looks just like his old man–a “chip off the old block” as Helen-via-the relentlessly-English-Fry puts… Read more: Through a lens familiarly
• The shedding of old ways of thinking2025-11-19
  In celebration of the honor awarded watercolor artist and author Obi Kaufmann last week, I started flipping through my copy of The State of Water and had my mind blown, linguistically: I always associated ‘shed’, in the context of ‘watershed’, with sloughing something off, shedding it like a skin. So, when I saw ‘watershed’ on… Read more: The shedding of old ways of thinking