Showing posts with label sci-fi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sci-fi. Show all posts
Thursday, September 22, 2011

Did You Know ...

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(T. S. Eliot, wearing a white rose) One of my favorite poets, T. S. Eliot , apparently wore a white rose in his lapel to show loyalty to Ri...
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Thursday, April 8, 2010

Totally Unexpected Gender and Disability Awesomeness from Larry Niven

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY : This is a review of hard-science-fiction writer Larry Niven's 1983 novel The Integral Trees . The book is excellent ...
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Sunday, November 9, 2008

The Color and Shape of Thought

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Several months ago, Catana recommended Nancy Kress 's Sleepless trilogy to me, and just this past couple weeks I finally got my hands o...
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Thursday, August 28, 2008

Metaphor at the Expense of Characterization: Autism in Margaret Atwood's "Oryx and Crake"

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Full disclosure: I love Margaret Atwood's books. I have ten or eleven of them (of which two are being loaned out to a friend in Tennesse...
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Thursday, January 31, 2008

Autism in the Not-Too-Distant Future: Thoughts on Elizabeth Moon's The Speed of Dark

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Honestly, The Speed of Dark turned out to be a very different book than I expected it to be. It was shelved as science fiction, and Elizabe...
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Sunday, November 11, 2007

Superheroes and Disability in Soon I Will Be Invincible

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While there are a lot of potential topics for an essay on Austin Grossman's Soon I Will Be Invincible , the one that fits the best with...
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