CBS Radio Workshop: Report on the We-Uns

Report on the We-Uns

Six thousands years in the future, archaeologists attempt to make sense of artifacts from the lost and mostly forgotten empty continents dividing the Atlantic from the Pacific.

Yeah, you could probably put together a whole anthology of stories like this, and I bet most of them would derive their humour from the degree to which the scholars get things wrong.

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As pointed out to me in email

It is rare indeed to find a middle-aged, respected CPA who is also a Hitler-worshiping Holocaust denier intent on building an all-white Aryan homeland. Yet that is exactly what Timothy Stephen Folke, an accountant whose firm in Payette, Idaho, audits many of Idaho’s public schools and other government entities, appears to be. In secret. And with the personal advice of Hitler.

As asked in email, one wonder how he settled on Farnham as part of his pen name.

Say, he has a fantasy novel. I wonder if Weird Tales is looking for a serial?

Speaking of Weird Tales

Their website seems to indicate issue 360 is the most recent one to be published (although I see references to the effect that they have the contents of issue 361 on hand). That was the fall issue for 2012....

Happy Birthday, Octavia Butler!

The first Octavia Butler novel I ever read was Fledgling, and it was a revelation. While I had been taught by early exposure to Ursula Le Guin that genre fiction could be political, could comment on social and cultural morés, I never expected that someone would use vampires to discuss bigotry, racism, and slavery. It’s been almost a decade since I read it, but I doubt I’ll ever forget that sense of wonder.

Watching From the Earth to the Moon

Does no one ever check for stow aways?

A love letter to OSC from Scenes From a Multiverse

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Pharyngula wins the prize!

A visit from Scott Adams!