Musings of a Wanderer 🔗
< !--more-- Today is a day to carve into my memory, and what I’m about to write here, [...]
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Answer (1954) - Fredric Brown 🔗
<![CDATA[White shadows walking on black blocks. A very very short read. I don't share Brown's pessimism about AI, but this story dates back to 1954 [...]
On Cozy Sci-fi and Walking 🔗
<![CDATA[Two houses and red trees. !--more-- I recently started reading Becky Chambers, one of the leading voices of cozy sci-fi. As she neatly puts [...]
To the Sun (1931) - Clark Ashton Smith 🔗
<![CDATA[ I'd call that cosmic poetry. Saturne !--more-- Thy light is an eminence unto thee And thou art upheld by the pillars of thy strength. [...]
Something Else 🔗
<![CDATA[A multicolored being. In 2027 (I think), I’ll publish my autobiography, in English (I’m French but surprisingly, when it comes to writing, I [...]
Off-topic: A Side Project 🔗
<![CDATA[ The strange and fascinating world of early 20th-century French Catholic writers. !--more-- A while back, I started working on a second bl [...]
What's next? 🔗
<![CDATA[Sei - Ifeoluwase Taiwo (2026) Probably looking further. !--more-- Tons of great authors are Americans, but man, America isn't the only cou [...]
Everest (1953) - Asimov 🔗
<![CDATA[Mount Everest A very short story on humility, among other things. -- Perhaps you’ve read how Everest has now been climbed? But have you [...]
Assassin - Hannah Blume 🔗
<![CDATA[Motion blur of a departing subway train next to a man at Dundas station, Toronto But eventually, as things go from the lesser of two evils [...]
Anthem (1938) - Ayn Rand 🔗
<![CDATA[Black-and-white illustration by Virgil Finlay, accompanying a reprint of Ayn Rand's 1938 Anthem in the June 1953 Famous Fantastic Mysteries ( [...]