Space Time Stories

I just finished listening to Richard Morgan’s Thirteen from Audible. This new novel is an involving story about a genetically engineered mutant, such people carry the nickname Thirteen. Reminds me of Rome. The 13th Legion warriors were aggressive and invincible. So are the mutants. They are fierce male warriors [...]

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I just finished listening to Verner Vinge’s book “Rainbows End“. There were some things about this book which were very difficult to follow in audio, perhaps reading it would be easier. Overall it was an interesting portrayal of life in the near future when personal technology has become as useful as shoes and [...]

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Word doesn’t offer a word count histogram, so I wrote one in perl. I……. you are only about 3 minutes away from running your own word count on any document you like.

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Thanks to Gordon van Gelder for the July 2008 issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Two stories caught my attention: Reader’s Guide by Lisa Goldstein had an interesting twist at the end, at least I thought so. Seems that a young apprentice might be rising up in the organization. This was an [...]

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