"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough" ~ Mae West
The Black Box in the Nursery
When HAL 9000 calmly informed Dave Bowman that the mission was too important to allow human interference, Arthur C. Clarke wasn’t merely pre...
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Here I sit - nursing a scotch, looking out at the pink and orange reflection of the sunset on the mountain—pondering my solitary act of civi... -
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first t... -
The Parable, Redacted A long time ago, a grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing. A wretched thing, laboring away in the heat, a...