All chapters in the Galilee Stories Nazareth. What am I doing here? I wanted to stay out of sight in the backwaters, now I’m at the center of the universe. There are 2 main trade routes in this world: Baghdad to Rome and Cairo to Damascus. Those 2 paths intersect right here in Nazareth. Thousands [...]
Time Travel – Galilee 2
July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
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The Best Time Travel Movies
June 18th, 2008 · 8 Comments
A recent post on TopTenz offered the Top 10 time travel movies. With all due respect it’s not clear that “time travel” was an important concept in this list. For example, in the Terminator movies there is a single time travel event at the very beginning of the movie and then nothing more. While the [...]
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Self-Aware Blog
June 11th, 2008 · 3 Comments
I’m worried my blog is on the verge of achieving sentience. I’ve noticed that some of my time travel stories have achieved a life of their own. What would it mean for a blog to be self-aware? Would it take comments personally? Would it seize control of the entire Internet and retaliate for poor digg [...]
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Time Travel – Galilee
June 11th, 2008 · 6 Comments
Chapter 4 is posted ! All Chapters in the Galilee Stories Chapter 1 Cautiously I peered over the ridge, waiting for the Roman soldiers to pass by. I was dressed in rags to intentionally look like the poorest of the poor. Not only was this my best method of avoiding the authorities it should make [...]
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Richard Morgan on Internecine SciFi Warfare
May 5th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Richard Morgan has some hostile words for the battles ongoing within the science fiction community. http://www.richardkmorgan.com/article_soundfury.htm His comments are great, but we need more analysis. Why is there civil warfare inside our genre? Isn’t there room enough for all of us? 1 First of all, more than anything else, this is about money. There are [...]
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