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  • Ursula K. Le Guin, 1929-2018

    In 1980, one of my stories appeared in a science fiction anthology called New Dimensions. I was a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America at the time, and the following year I learned that two people had recommended my story for a Nebula Award. I never got anywhere…

  • To the wind’s twelve quarters/I take my endless way

    In the past few years, someone I loved, someone millions of people loved, died in January. Sadly, this January is no exception. Ursula K. Le Guin died on Sunday. Unlike the other gods who have left us to muddle through life as best we can here on Earth Prime, I…

  • There will never be another Beatles, except for the one time there was

    Everyone is always looking for the next Beatles. From The Monkees to The Arctic Monkees, we salivate over any upstart new band that threatens to upset the world as we know it. They never do. We ain’t gonna see anything like The Beatles and Beatlemania again. There will never be…

  • Life in the 90s

    We just visited my parents in the little town in Massachusetts where I grew up and learned not to trust the Red Sox. You have to make some adjustments in Massachusetts. A regular coffee at Dunkin’ Donuts is coffee, milk, and two sugahs. A milkshake doesn’t have ice cream, but…

  • Less carnage, more nudity

    I just saw Thor: Ragnarok. The studio chose “Ragnarok” instead of “Ragamuffin” or “Turmoil in Asgard!” or “Domestic Disturbance, Call 9-1-1” because Ragnarok sounds like an evil Norwegian metal band plus it ends with “rock” so you know this film is going to RAWK! Ragnarok didn’t, though it was far…