Call me a pessimist if you will (you will) but when I read stories with headlines like Nasa scientists hail Perseverance rover’s arrival on Mars with stunning images… The rover’s broad mission is to stay on Mars for a couple of years, gather data and harvest samples to be collected and returned to Earth on… Continue reading Persevering in the Spirit of the Opportunity open to us
Month: February 2021
Novel Gazing Redux
This series of posts by Marissa Lingen about authors of speculative fiction posted at Novel Gazing Redux under the heading of Present Writers is fascinating stuff: [On Lois McMaster Bujold…] One of the things I love about Lois’s work is that she is extremely speculative about relationship, family, and reproduction. You cannot separate out the… Continue reading Novel Gazing Redux
Skyfire
I’m indebted to the Phil and Lisa Ruin the Movies podcast for bringing Skyfire to my attention yesterday. Take a plot that amounts to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom minus the dinosaurs. Throw in a couple of known Western names – director Simon West and actor Jason Isaacs – to help it get some profile in… Continue reading Skyfire
Miss Skippit
Andrew O’Hagan on recently-retired London Review of Books editor Mary-Kay Wilmers, a.k.a. Miss Skippit: Some people are orderly – to the point of disorder, obsessive-compulsively – and other people are disorderly in a productive way. Mary-Kay is in the latter class, good at appointments (hair, board meetings, eye drops) but not so hot on deadlines… Continue reading Miss Skippit
Totally Eclipsed…
Folks, I give you Totally Fixed Where We Are: Cheesy? Oh yes. A work of genius? Very possibly!1 [Via swissmiss] Perhaps you need to be of a certain age to fully appreciate this. Or perhaps not. ↩