A Commonplace Book

Athena, Apollo, time travel, Socrates, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Marsilio Ficino and robot ethics.

New Horizons is often described as the size of a grand piano. Somehow it pleases me to come from a culture that calibrates the size of spac...

New Horizons has entered Pluto's Hill Sphere, the space where Pluto's gravity dominates that of the Sun. Pluto and Charon are sta...

Three pups for the Genius Club, no one knows why Seven for John C. Wright and his Saudi prose Nine for the Brad that calls you a CHORF O...

She's young Victoria in powered armor. He's a smarmy rear-echelon coward. Together they fight aliens! Time traveling aliens on a Gro...

Two small groups, calling themselves Rabid Puppies and Sad Puppies, used disciplined slate voting to dominate the 2015 Hugo final ballot. Af...

What he said.

Ancillary Sword , by Ann Leckie, is a worthy successor to last years Hugo Awards best novel, Ancillary Justice.  Breq, the protagonist, is a...

Has this happened to you? You're reading a new book, and you have a sudden desire to introduce Mr. Book to Mr. Wall. At high velocity. I...

"What are we looking for again?" said Liu, the technician from Mars Spacefleet. "Ejecta from Perdita , of course.You saw th...