I wouldn’t mind waking up to the sound of rain on my roof some mornings, provided it cleared off in time for me to walk into town. And I wouldn’t mind finding a perfectly ripe banana waiting for me in the wooden mystery bowl when I arrived Underground. If every now and then I spent […]
I drove to Columbia on Sunday to meet a high school classmate for dinner. We talked of many things, including the reunion that he plans to attend and that I plan to miss. Torrential rain was flooding Gervais Street as we adjourned. My classmate believes, and I believe him, that he has found his calling. His true […]
Coincidence, I guess. Midway through the last book of Asimov’s robot trilogy, I happened to download Steve Paulson’s interview with Eric Klinenberg (7.7.13 broadcast: “The New Alone“). I’ll get to Klinenberg in a moment. The second book of the trilogy, Naked Sun, takes place several thousand years in the future on Solaria, one of 50 bucolic “outer worlds” […]
