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H.G. Wells and the Sensation of Time
I am afraid I cannot convey the peculiar sensations of time travel. They are exceedingly unpleasant. — The Time Machine (1895) July 9th, 2009. Today I finished the final chapters of H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine, and felt the sadness I always feel when finishing a great book—it is the sadness of parting ways with people… Continue reading
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Helvetica
Knowing my interest in typography, my friend – David, suggested I watch the documentary Helvetica. I did and afterward I had brainwave—could I write a short bit of prose in which I describe a beautiful font and a beautiful woman simultaneously? I took inspiration from Dashiell Hammett’s beautifully concise prose in The Thin Man. Continue reading
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A Summer Haiku For My Mom
To use a poetic form that is best suited for one language to compose a poem in another is always touch-and-go. And haiku is one such form. I think this works better as two lines rather than three. Traditionally, haiku contains a seasonal word that places the work within the seasons. I wrote this in… Continue reading
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The Thang: A Sci-Fi Lullaby
May 26, 2017. In a brittle issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction from November 1952, I stumbled across a short story entitled “Bem” by sci-fi author Charles T. Webb. His story so amused me that I decided to write my own using “Bem” as one inspiration and the 1897 UFO crash in Aurora,… Continue reading
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NEWS FLASH: MARS ATTACKS WITHOUT REASON
How modernized adaptations of The War of the Worlds turn H. G. Wells’ masterpiece into just another invasion story in a long line of uninspired invasion stories. Continue reading
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