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Category Archives: Fantasy/Adventure
Earthsea — Dragons and Wizards
Sheltering at home gives me extra time for reading— I read in English some books I first read while studying Spanish: 100 Years of Solitude, Love in the time of Cholera, Death in the Andes, etc. Now, I’m turning to … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy/Adventure, Fiction, Other, Photography, Speculative Fiction
Tagged Charles Vess, Coloring, Illustration, Photoshop CC, Ursula K. Le Guin
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Transient — Anonymous Drifter
As a famous drifter once said: “May the Force be with you.” The equation of force is cut into the steel sculpture Brilliance that is on display at the Palo Alto Art Center. There are 6 similarly shaped steel sculptures … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy/Adventure, Photography
Tagged Blessing Hancock, Brilliance, Weekly Photo Challenge, Wordpress
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Path — Walking on Windy Hill
Out for a walk on the path to Windy Hill; it’s the start of winter, but the grass is green and I think of spring. Where am I going? I don’t quite know. What does it matter where people go? Down … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy/Adventure, Photography, Poetry, Travel
Tagged Weekly Photo Challenge, Wordpress
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Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot — A Good Read
WTF–the novel introduces the reader to SineCo, an international digital search company that is planning to kidnap and hold for ransom all the data that you and I have given to social media, banks and governments. The massive SineCo computers … Continue reading
The 25th Century — A Doom Scenario
Note: California City was laid out in 1958 by real estate developer and sociology professor Nat Mendelsohn on 80,000 acres of Mojave Desert land. It was never completed, but has one landowners’ resort, one PGA golf course, one prison (the California … Continue reading
Posted in eBook, Fantasy/Adventure, Fiction, Speculative Fiction
Tagged California, POD, postaweek, San Francisco, Self-Publishing, Tijuana, Yucca Mountain
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London – The Twilight of the Gods
Summer reading takes us to London. Something is not quite right in London’s beautiful Hampstead Heath Park. Is a dog-walker hugging that majestic English Oak? No, she is talking to it. How odd. Oh the infamy of it all – … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy/Adventure, Fiction
Tagged Hampstead Heath, London, postaweek, Review, San Francisco, Working Women
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Summer Reading: Escaped God Particle Terrorizes Countryside
My summer reading always includes at least one sci-fi novel; the choice this year is Book: The God Particle, A Simple Tale of Subatomic Particle Metaphysics by Scottish writer Peter Lihou. Lihou’s story begins with a news event: a European … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy/Adventure
Tagged CERN, God Particle, Large Hadron Collider, postaweek, Quark, science, SLAC, Stanford University, tim berners lee
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The Strain—Vampires Dine On New York City’s Finest
The NY City Hall subway station lies beneath City Hall Park just blocks from the World Trade Center construction site. Now fallen on hard times, the ornate subway station is featured in The Strain, a Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy/Adventure, Fiction, Horror
Tagged Dracula, Guillermo del Toro, postaday, Vampires
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Jabberwock for President. Joking, of Course
The candidates are debating; each wants to be president, but the real candidate, call him the Jabberwock, is not present. First, the candidates opening statements: The Governor: ‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy/Adventure, Poetry
Tagged Lewis Carroll, postaday, Presidential Debates
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