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Today is the seventy fifth anniversary of India’s independence from British rule. It was a monumental achievement built on the sacrifice of millions…
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A slow restart
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All roads lead to Kaifeng
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There’s a profound saying about Chan (Zen) practice: Great faith, great doubt, great determination. The great Chan patriarchs would be aghast to learn…
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Silver and Lapis
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According to Borges, Pierre Menard was a practitioner of right-handed Tantra in public. Among his many achievements was a book on George Boole’s…
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There’ something refreshing about hard SF. The writers whom I admired (and still do to a lesser extent) didn’t care about literary skills - their…
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It was fun reading Solaris; I was sucked in at the very beginning and finished most of the book in one long sitting. The truly alien atmosphere, the…
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Hard Science Fiction, if not Science Fiction as such, is the story of society’s victory over nature, so complete a victory that society has left the…
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First Contact First contact is when the hero encounters the alien for the first time - ideally an alien intelligence, but if he isn’t ambitious, he…
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Lem beyond Solaris. Solaris Beyond Lem.
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Today’s update is both a retrospective and a prospectus, or in plain English: where we have come from, and where we are going. Swimming into our Ken I…
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