Science Fiction

The Pseudoiterative Academic

With the semester having just ended, many of us are settling into new summertime routines and hoping those routines supports both some research productivity and some measure of relaxation. For me, in addition

Truth (happily) stranger than fiction

I recently finished rereading, for the first time in many years, one of my childhood favorites, Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. I was immediately struck that the dates Bradbury imagined for

Briefly Noted for March 25, 2008

Wikihistory is a short science fiction story about a group of future time travelers' journeys to the mid-20th century. Structured as a series of posts to a message board or wiki, Wikihistory

Forty Signs of Rain

This post may be even shorter than usual. I'm writing from Breckenridge, CO where I'm enjoying a couple (very cold) days of skiing. (The conditions are epic in case