A few hundred miles outside the ship, the Lady May thought back at him, “O warm, O generous, O gigantic man!  O brave, O friendly, O tender and huge partner!  O wonderful with you, with you so good, good, good, warm, warm, now to fight, now to go, good with you…” Lady May to Underhill [...]

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The Hugo Award is using the instant runoff voting system (a variant of the Australian Ballot).  It may not rings a bell right now since we are used to the majority vote only.  But I think this system will be a subject of conversation next year when the Oscar will be awarded.  As may be [...]

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“Yes, Marcus?” “Ms. Galvez, about this note?” “Yes, Marcus.” “Isn’t the point of terrorism to make us afraid?  That’s why it’s called terrorism, right?” “I suppose so.”  The class was staring at me.  I wasn’t the best student in school, but I did like a good in-class debate.  They were waiting to hear what I’d [...]

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In 1971 : Radio and television cigarette advertisements were banned in the United States. The southern part of Québec received the Century’s Snowstorm (42 cm of snow). Intel launched the 4004 microprocessor. And Apollo 15 landed on the moon. Exploring the Commons on Flickr, I have found some nice albums from the George Eastman House [...]

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“He says if I kick anything, it’ll fall off.” “I ran into one of your pals,” he said, “a modern.” “Yeah?  Which one?” “Lupus Yonderboy.  Had a message.”  He passed her a paper napkin with W I N T E R M U T E printed in red feltpen in his neat, laborious capitals.  “He [...]

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