I recently finished reading Ted Chiang’s wonderful novella The Lifecyle of Software Objects (2010). I’m teaching a literature class on robots and AI in the popular imagination this semester, and I had initially considered putting this story on the syllabus. I left it off for reasons I don’t need to go into here, but I […]
I’ve decided to try to get back into blogging a little, so I thought I’d start with a short post just to talk about some of the reading I’ve been doing lately. I might do individual reviews of some of these books and/or stories at some point. For now, this is just a brief overview […]
So, as usual it’s been a minute since I’ve posted here, but I try to keep the content coming at a slow and steady drip, at least! I believe I’ve mentioned previously how I’ve gotten back into the fiction of H.G. Wells over the last couple of years. I’ve taught The Time Machine and The […]