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The Triptych of the Fourth Dimension
3+ hour, 16+ min ago (726+ words) A time traveler discovers a post-scarcity utopia of biologicals, maintainers, and phase-shifters in Wells' future....
G??nther Anders, the Philosopher at the End of the World
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (1414+ words) Günther Anders, the Philosopher at the End of the World compactmag.com When Army Air Forces officer Claude Eatherly piloted the plane Straight Flush in support of Enola Gay’s mission to obliterate the city of Hiroshima, his tasks were little…...
Colson Whitehead’s 'Cool Machine' Is Powered by His Ruminating Prose » PopMatters
4+ day, 16+ hour ago (791+ words) Chris Barsanti is a freelance writer, editor, consultant, and aspiring flâneur. A member of the National Book Critics Circle and the Online Film Critics Society, he has been published in the Chicago Tribune, The Hollywood Reporter, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Publishers…...
????The Machine Stops???? by E.M. Forster: Blessed is the Machine
1+ week, 5+ day ago (722+ words) “The Machine,” they exclaimed, “feeds us and clothes us and houses us; through it we speak to one another, through it we see one another, in it we have our being.” Sounds familiar? Perhaps yes, from the Bible? Yes, but…...
Geoffrey Simmons: Man’s Beginning — And His End?
2+ week, 1+ day ago (293+ words) Have you ever read a book in which both the origin and end of man hang in the balance? That’s a rare combination that comes together in a new thriller novel. Source Have you ever read a book in which…...
the Book Man – Litopia
2+ week, 2+ day ago (858+ words) My father was the first one to turn me to reading. He had a modest bookcase with science fiction novels: Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke– the big three– but also Le Guin, Bradbury, James Tiptree Jr. The books were old, even then,…...
Recent Release, "Mindkind," from Fulton Books Author David L. Shutes, Explores Humanity's Potential to Rebuild Cultural Connection After Civilizational Collapse
2+ week, 4+ day ago (356+ words) PR.com Shutes has completed a new book, "Mindkind": A Fiction of Science and Culture, an imaginative exploration that begins with intimate conversations on a city bus and expands into profound meditations on human consciousness and shared inheritance The narrative…...
Cool Machine: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
3+ week, 1+ day ago (629+ words) Colson Whitehead’s Cool Machine grabbed me from the epigraph, “It’s harder to find a good coffee table than it is to fall in love.” Whitehead is a Picasso of prose, painting pages with ebullient word-pictures. Cool Machine follows Crook Manifesto,…...
Ontological Antinomy, Semiotic Failure, and Epistemic Impasse
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1226+ words) A Meta-Theoretical Mapping of Linguistic Incompatibility with Absolute Nothingness A Comprehensive Inquiry into Quantum Mechanics …...
New Book by Tharapita Tam Explores Consciousness, Existence and the Origin of the Universe
4+ week, 17+ hour ago (244+ words) A Brief History of the Universe by Tharapita Tam book cover Amsterdam, Noord-Holland Aug 15, 2026 (Issuewire.com) - "A Brief History of the Universe" – An Exploration of Fundamental Questions A newly published work by Tharapita Tam offers an original inquiry into consciousness,…...