A World of Speculation

Science Fiction definitions

New member of the blogroll is this page: IF YOU LIKE THIS page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE. I’ll have to take it in in small bites, because the background makes my eyes jitter. All the same, it’s a perceptive look at the many subgenres of science...

The value of creativity

A correspondent on a writing list said that a friend of his wasn’t pleased with his recent success at selling his fiction. The friend thought that writing fiction was an intrinisically self-centered and selfish undertaking. I disagree. God creates the world in...

Speaking of Serbia

The new Onion Dome is out, and “In a move which has been repeated repeatedly over the last year and a half, the Serbian Orthodox continued this week to be totally undisturbed about not being mentioned regularly in the online Orthodox satire weekly, the Onion...

Goodbye HTML cheatsheet

Wired News: Webmonkey, RIP: 1996 – 2004: “They finally pulled the plug. Webmonkey, the site that turned humble Web developers into attention-grabbing authors, said last week it is closing down following a round of layoffs in the U.S. division of its parent...