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Double Star by Robert Heinlein: A Book Review Essay

This is my book review essay, dealing in depth with Robert Heinlein's classic science fiction novel, "Double Star." An actor is drafted to impersonate a kidnapped man, a famous politician. I de...
  • Sally Morem published this 08 / 28 / 2009
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Beyond 2060

Cyberpunk Voices and Nano-Fragments from the NeurOceans, the imagined Virtual Futures... Cyberspace Inspiration for all users and developers of modern computer technology. Includes Cyberspace...
  • ade-mc published this 07 / 15 / 2009
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Mars: The Outpost of Imagination

I wrote this essay on the history of the human perspectives on Mars and the possible future exploration and settlement of Mars in 1986. It includes Mars mythology, visions of Martians, observa...
  • Sally Morem published this 05 / 16 / 2009
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HE WALKED AMONG US by Norman Spinrad

The complete shareware text of the novel HE WALKED AMONG US. An experiment in viral distribution.
  • Norman Spinrad published this 09 / 19 / 2007
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The Star my essay

I use Arthur C. Clarke's short story, "The Star," and Olaf Stapledon's novel "The Star Maker" to deal with a very difficult theological problem that "theodicy" fails to address convincingly: the al...
  • Sally Morem published this 06 / 10 / 2008
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The Magic Universe of George Lucas

In this essay, I respond to SF writer David Brin's notorious essay against the Star Wars movies. I argue that George Lucas, far from promoting an anti-democratic, elitist society, was actually att...
  • Sally Morem published this 06 / 10 / 2008
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Of Robots and Empire Asimov

In this essay, I critique Isaac Asimov's Robot and Empire future histories and stories. By using Leonard Read's famous economic essay, "I, Pencil," I describe the self-organizing character of larg...
  • Sally Morem published this 06 / 10 / 2008
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Childhoods End

This review is basically a short summary of Arthur C. Clarke's famous novel. I've also read the novella, but didn't summarize that here.
  • Sally Morem published this 06 / 10 / 2008
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The Problem With Alien Invasions

I use H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds" and Steven Spielberg's 2005 remake of the story to launch my discussion of the many problems that alien invasion stories pose to writers. My contention is...
  • Sally Morem published this 01 / 30 / 2009
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