Fort
There’s nothing like a suddenly lost object to demonstrate the precarity of our systems for keeping order—the flimsiness of the illusion that the spaces we inhabit are at our mercy, rather than the...
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Back in January when I sent out my book manuscript, I had the weird sense of waving goodbye to a cruise ship I built myself, standing at the pier while this giant, white, overstuffed artifact bellied...
View ArticleReview: Masters of Doom
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created An Empire and Transformed Pop Culture David Kushner New York: Random House, 2003 Review originally published in January 2004 at the Resource Center for...
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Cover Concept
Below, preliminary cover art for my forthcoming book, due out from NYU Press in Spring 2018: I really like the way the designers have integrated artwork from Georges Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon...
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Clone Tank Mod
This is the LEGO Republic Fighter Tank 75182, modded by Zach, basically built out with extra guns and cool stuff. The four racked missiles in the front are new, as are the spotlights/sensors (borrowed...
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Megs
Two “Megs,” or giant sharks, by Trevor. The first was started at school and finished at home, with an assist from Zachary, who added the dorsal, ventral, and tailfins following a brief debate over...
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Trifid
“Great star-clouds glittered all around them, the swarms of suns that in the Sagittarius region of the Milky Way made brilliant the summer nights of faraway Earth. But beyond all of these loomed a...
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Ice cream truck
Executed rapidly by Trevor in what was almost a lightning sketch. Inspired not by the sight but by the sound of the music, that tinkling ice-cream-truck tune that still, after all these years,...
View ArticleWorldbuilding avant la lettre in Robert A. Heinlein
“The only mainstream writer to whom Heinlein acknowledges a debt is Sinclair Lewis, and it is not for literary style. Lewis laid out extensive backgrounds for his work which did not directly appear in...
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Declaration of Teaching Principles
By the first class meeting Watch all screenings. Review all assigned readings. Draft all assignments. Set up Moodle. Before class Watch every assigned screening. Do every assigned reading. Plan the...
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