Sarah Kanning

Okay, so it turns out it was bad timing for me to read The Road by Cormac McCarthy last week, right before the World Health Organization (WHO) raised its pandemic alert from 3 to 4 (I think levels 5 and 6 are the official “holy crap” levels), AND two (mild) cases of swine flu turned [...]

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On his site, ConceptualFiction.com, Ted Gioia asks, “Did sci-fi writers from the 1940s and 1950s  anticipate the future of serious literature better than the so-called “serious writers” or, for that matter, the highbrow critics?”
Yes.
This essay is dear to my heart, as one who loves Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities just as much as Ursula K. le [...]

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If you’ve been watching Joss Whedon’s new show Dollhouse this spring, here’s a little science tidbit for you:  Brain Power - Brain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory
Of course, they are still REALLY far away from editing memories in humans, but they seem to have been able to erase (in a broad/blunt way, at least) [...]

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Do yourself a favor, take a writing break and go visit “A Comprehensive and Totally Universal Listing of Every Problem a Story Has Ever Had,” by Douglas A. Van Belle, in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. Particularly #7, Point of View is Like a Box of Condoms. Fun and useful.
Also, because I live in a cave, [...]

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Read a bit on Skepchick about the “Quiverfull” movement the other day (go ahead, it’s a quick read, I’ll wait right here), and the whole concept of this group and others like it existing today highlights the need to understand culture as a response to environment and an attempt at solving real-world problems people are [...]

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