Spaceship Earth: the Shape of our Planet!
Or “Can’t We Just Stop Destroying Things?” I just watched Spaceship Earth, which is the story of the Biosphere2 project outside of Tucson, Arizona. I remember touring Biosphere2 with my youngest, a science buff, while visiting my dad in the 2000s. (I miss you, Dad.) It felt like I was inside a terrarium. Warm, moist,…
Keep readingA new eye for Frankenstein.
It sure is intimidating to review Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Percy Shelley. What could I possibly add to what has already been written? So let’s get this out of the way: 5 STARS! Now onto more interesting things: as I reread the book for the third time, I read it with an…
Keep reading‘The opposite of Uplift’ in The Lemming Condition
This is a question in my mind: What is the opposite of Uplift? Is it Putdown? Some books so obviously fall into the Absolute-Opposite-of-Uplift category, and I would like a name for it. Why this negative stuff? I thought this was an uplifting blog? In order to understand what is uplifting, I think I need…
Keep readingSundiver by David Brin: the ‘eponymous’ review
The beginning of it all… literarily speaking.
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