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Notes on the SF Classics Talks at LAcon V

By John Hertz:  I led Classics of Science Fiction discussions at LAcon V the 84th World Science Fiction Convention 27-31 Aug 26, as I have at cons, including Worldcons, for years. ...

Classics of Science Fiction at LAcon V

By John Hertz:  We’ll discuss three SF Classics at LAcon V, one discussion each.  Come to as many as you like.  You’ll be welcome to join in. I’m still with “A classic is a work th...

Late-Night Dorm-Room Conversation Topics, Updated for Middle Age

Fuck, Marry, Kill: Income-tax returns, life-insurance policies, that folder explaining benefits that you received from H.R. when you were onboarded, and then immediately lost?

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staying grounded in an agentic world

A trot down memory lane

Revisit Claes Oldenburg’s Seminal ‘Six Themes’ 50 Years After Its Debut

'Six Themes' at Paula Cooper Gallery celebrates the artist's seminal sculptures. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independ...

The Radical Ideas of Plato’s Republic: An In-Depth Introduction

We no longer live in a time when college freshmen get shocked by much of the reading material assigned to them. Counterintuitively, the texts that do retain their power to disturb...