Consider the Author
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1y ago
 This is something that I started writing some time ago and I think that it has legs but I lost track of it and just never finished it. As of now, I am not interested in finishing this, but I want to post this because I think that I make a few good observations here and it is hard to throw away a piece of writing like this once it has begun. It's my blog, so that's it. Parts of this are a little rough and some places I just leave off because I was just jotting down notes. There is one point at the end that I will comment on after the text that I have written. So here it is, another unfini ..read more
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Book Notes
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1y ago
 I wrote this some time last year or the year before. I'm not sure when this is from, exactly. I am posting without further comment. Island in the Sea of Time– SM Stirling This is a series that I have known about for some time and I read the opening novel of the sister series about a year and a half ago. Without being too glib about it, I will just say that these books aren't for me. They straddle the line between SF and fantasy and I think that they end up being a bit on the fantasy side of things for my tastes. The basic story is that the island of Nantucket is inexplicably transported ..read more
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Restarting.
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1y ago
It has been some time since I have posted anything here. I am, optimistically, going to set myself up to begin posting again. There are some books that I have read in the last year that I wanted to write about but I think I missed the boat because it has been some time since I read them. Some of them I may try to work back to them regardless. As I draft this and think about getting started again, I also think about the ebb and flow of my interest, my energy, and my motivation. These things change over time and I often find myself being drawn back to old projects. I do have a different project ..read more
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Ending another year.
Between the Round and the Square
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2y ago
I am ending out 2021 without ever having returned to the blog. After all of the changes of 2020, I had high hopes for 2021. I won't say that it was worse because I don't think that it was. Instead, I will say that it was different. The successes and challenges were different. The second half of the year particularly presented a number of challenges for me, but it also brought a lot of hope as well. I won't get into specifics here but those who know me will be aware of what all of this means. I do hope to begin posting again in 2022. I'm not sure when, how often, or in what capacity, but I do w ..read more
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2021 Books
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2y ago
 I don't write about all of the books that I read.  Here is a list of the books that I read in 2021. Asimov, Isaac.  Forward the Foundation. ---.  The Complete Robot. ---.  The Caves of Steel. ---.  The Naked Sun. Christensen, Emma.  Brew Better Beer. Cline, Ernest.  Ready Player Two. Corey, James SA.  Babylon's Ashes.---.  Persepolis Rising. ---.  Tiamat's Wrath. Cronin, Justin.  The Passage. DeLillo, Don.  Libra. Farina, Richard.  Been down so Long it Looks like up to Me. Frye, Northrop.  Anatomy of Criticism. Goldbe ..read more
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After the Quarantine
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3y ago
 This is the text of a talk that I gave at the Working-Class Studies Association conference earlier this month.  This concerns the working conditions of Adjunct Instructors and the shape of virtual pedagogy today. “After the Quarantine: Virtual Pedagogy and Virtual Workspaces in a Post-Pandemic World” When I sat down to write out the introduction to the presentation that I am going to give today, I realized that it has been about a year and a half since I initially submitted my abstract. Back in January of 2020 we all had hoped to meet together in person in Youngstown but the events ..read more
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Imagining Earth's Future
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3y ago
Kim Stanley Robinson seems to write two kinds of books. Both are hard sci-fi in the sense that they focus on either current technology or near-future technology extrapolated from current science. Both kinds of books are quick to locate the political elements of technology and science. While one sort of novel follows in the vein of his Marstrilogy – set in space and looking toward a sort of hopeful exploration (though often fraught with its own political difficulties) – the other kind of novel brings his readers back to Earth to take a hard look at the problems that we face here. The Ministry ..read more
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The Expanse, part 8: Tiamat's Wrath
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3y ago
I have finally caught up with the series that I started back in October of 2019. All things considered, I don't think I made a bad job of it. I read 8 novels that are all around 500 pages long in the space of a year and a half. When I first started Leviathan Wakes, I had bought a set of the first three books in the series. As I finished the first one and moved into the second, I thought that I would finish these three and see what happens, not really planning on going beyond those three books anytime soon. But it turns out that I read these pretty well back-to-back over that time since. (Thi ..read more
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Check out my review from Los Angeles Review of Books
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3y ago
  So I'm not officially back yet but check out this link to read my review of Lee Matthew Goldberg's new book Orange City. I'll be back in mid-May with a post on book eight of The Expanse series and a lot more to follow ..read more
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Returning soon...
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3y ago
  For those who check in here on any sort of basis: this is a note of explanation for my recent absence and my plan for return. Over the last several months, I have taken on a couple of projects that have taken up the time I normally would have spent writing here. I am compiling content even now and plan a return in mid-May. Upcoming posts include the most recent installment of The Expanse series, some notes on a variety of books that I have read in the last couple of months. Since I have finished a couple of the series that I have been working on lately, I plan on picking up another clas ..read more
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