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North Boogity
Lucius never called this beautiful town North Bend. He always referred to it as “North Boogity.” That just occurred to me after my run this evening. I remember the first time he came to visit: “Huh, I pictured a seedier … Continue reading
A Long Trip with Lucius, Part 4
“You must not think of me as a reliable witness, as someone immune to bias and distortion.” Lucius read this to me a few months after our trip, while he was working on “Crocodile Rock.” “What makes this great,” he … Continue reading
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Tagged Comedy of Errors, Lucius Shepard, Writing
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Appealing to Nature, Just a Bit
I was just re-reading a long, fascinating and very heated evo-psych thread I started on Facebook late last year, and toward the end it veered off into philosophy. A very smart author friend of mine has strenuously argued for adopting a … Continue reading
A Great Tool, but a Treacherous Weapon
The proper use of evolutionary psychology in the gender wars is to facilitate a truce. If you have equipped yourself with the logic in order to support the gender or political side you’re identified with in its grievances against another, … Continue reading
On Bradbury, Minorities, and Diversity
My teenage daughter was reading Fahrenheit 451 and came to me to discuss it. She’d been struggling with the idea in the book that the grievances of interest groups led to totalitarianism and book burning. She’d always assumed minorities foster diversity … Continue reading
The 40-Year Quest for a Game that Breaks All the Rules
About three weeks ago, I was talking with Baen editor Tony Daniel and told him I was reading about games and he asked if I’d write something for him. Since it was the 40th anniversary of D&D and Jim Lin’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Dungeons & Dragons, Game Theory, Wizards of the Coast
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