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Month: February 2019

What I’m Up To: February 25, 2019

February 25, 2019March 5, 2019 ~ Richard Rabil, Jr.

From the day I started this blog, I haven't committed to a strict blogging cadence. Until I do that (and I really should), if I don't have any well-formed thoughts to publish, I'll settle instead for giving a brief update on what I'm reading and working on.

Stars Beyond Our Reach

February 9, 2019March 21, 2019 ~ Richard Rabil, Jr. ~ 2 Comments

Traveling to the nearest star would require a generation ship. Can such a thing be done? As sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson explains with alacrity and precision, no, it can't.

Facebook Was Foreshadowed in 1909 (and a Score of Other Things You Didn’t Know about Science Fiction)

February 6, 2019February 16, 2019 ~ Richard Rabil, Jr. ~ 1 Comment

Why is 'Frankenstein' considered the mother of the genre? How did we go from seeing so many utopian stories to dystopian ones? Where did the word "robot" come from? Will SF ever be recognized as "true" literature?

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