Catalytic Narrative

Our current configuration as humans on the planet is almost purely a function of fossil fuel and chemistry. It should already be obvious to ...

Azimov has taught us all to expect that there can and shall be human-like robots (means worker), and that we must therefore lay down some la...

I've long known that John Barth is my favorite novelist. I thought the Sot-weed Factor to be the actual great American novel when I rea...

It feels inevitable now. The end is near.  Oh, did you think I was talking about the world? No, it is my personal demise which feels so near...

Yes, fearless reader, you are already familiar with my observation that human understanding ended with the bomb. We were so very impressed w...

Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy My rating: 5 of 5 stars Some novelists seem to write out of a kind of desperation. Life disappoints, feel...

The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy My rating: 5 of 5 stars The novel, she dead. All the same tropes, when you're (you, the author are) ...