WB Yeats, a famous Irish poet and playwright in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, undertook to collect the folktales of his homeland.
A Measured Post
Despite how little we think of it, measurement underpins the technological fabric of our modern world, it is fundamental to science and engineering, and it is how we are able to interact with the world.
Who Were the Celts? Review
Duffy answers his titular question with a simple answer of “basically everyone,” which struck me immediately as being a bit overly broad and inclusive.
Predicting the Future of Science Fiction
If we don’t have a vision for the future, the future might never arrive.
Animal Farm Review
On its surface, Animal Farm feels rather silly – the idea of animals, led by hyper-intelligent pigs, taking over a farm from humans who are entirely impotent to reclaim the small territory, is difficult to take seriously at times – but the reader must recall that Animal Farm is not so much a traditional novel as we think of the form as it is a fairy tale or a fable.
Finding Eden Release and Author’s Note
Even the not-quite utopia Finding Eden features is too perfect to convey adequately and convincingly, especially not in two thousand words, and the attempt would only distract from the story I’m trying to tell.
The Shadow of What Was Lost Review
This review may seem critical, but The Shadow of What Was Lost is not bad. If I were reading it ten years ago, I’d probably jump right into the sequel.
Fantasy’s Four Eras
Modern fantasy can be divided into four eras, but there first came a zeroth era which I call the pre-fantasy era.
The Sun Also Rises Review
I found The Sun Also Rises a disappointingly ordinary book from a purportedly extraordinary author.
Space Launch Context
I am far from an Elon Musk flunky, and I don’t have the romantic view of SpaceX that some in the industry maintain, but anyone who has followed the business of space launch since SpaceX entered the business would be hard-pressed to argue that they have not been a boon; quite simply, there wasn’t a space launch business before SpaceX.
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