Science
Reading Notes: R.U.R.
Space Canon
The first book of the project is a play, which is an early indicator of how esoteric this list really is. R.U.R. stands for Rossum’s Universal Robots, the latter term being coined by Karel Capek (an enigmatic Czech writer perhaps best known for his bizarre novel War With The Newts) as a derivation of the […]
Arthur C. Clarke in Playboy
Space Canon
The great (now late) Arthur C. Clarke had a longstanding relationship with Playboy magazine: they published the first excerpts of 2010: Odyssey Two, as well as a plethora of his short works, musings, and technical papers. It wasn’t until 1986 that the magazine ran a full-length “Playboy Interview” with Clarke, then living in Sri Lanka […]
The Project
Space Canon
I’ve been reading science fiction novels for most of my life; as a kid, consuming them breathlessly on my parents’ couch, clammy-palmed and haunted by the unreal; furtively, in college, instead of the recommended canon, which was, of course, markedly devoid of classics in the genre. What began as a diversion, as a love of […]
The Project
Space Canon
I’ve been reading science fiction novels for most of my life; as a kid, consuming them breathlessly on my parents’ couch, clammy-palmed and haunted by the unreal; furtively, in college, instead of the recommended canon, which was, of course, markedly devoid of classics in the genre. What began as a diversion, as a love of […]