Author Archives: Meg
What I’m Reading: Paradox Inc.
Paradox Inc. is a satirical and dystopian sci-fi novel by Forrest Brazeal, imagining realistic tech bros with the power of time travel. In an extremely familiar near-future, the tech industry has developed consumer time travel. Blebs, the branding for time-travel bubbles, allow … Continue reading
Not Fictional
The other day, an acquaintance tried to be insulting about my humanities background, but it was only several hours later when I realized “you really have a degree in reading books?” was meant to be demeaning. and not a slightly-clueless … Continue reading
What I’m Reading: Writers of the Future 42
I always look forward to the Writers of the Future collection, every year there are great new scifi / fantasy authors to discover. Last year, I thought the collection’s theme was AI, but wasn’t that kind of the theme of life … Continue reading
28
Fact check: 28 separate false claims Trump made this week: Daniel Dale: CNN There is so much going on in the news that it can be easy to overlook the fact that the president continues to tell a whole lot … Continue reading
What I’m Reading: Service Model
Recently, someone took out a shady credit card in my name, so I googled the bank and tracked down a customer service number in all the online reviews of what a predatory credit card this is, and I tried to … Continue reading
Cyberpunk 44
One of my students last semester wrote about how much he loves playing Cyberpunk 2077, which reminded me how much I used to enjoy tabletop Cyberpunk, and as soon as the semester finished, I got it. I love this game … Continue reading
Reflections on my Experience Learning to Write Chinese Characters – Sinosplice
I read Sinosplice regularly in my Yantai and Beijing days, and I took a lot of inspiration and encouragement from John’s accounts of learning Chinese. (My Mandarin skills still tap out at basic restaurant vocabulary, but I did turn that … Continue reading
Writers of the Future, Volume 40
Writers of the Future , Volume 40 is this year’s collection of sci-fi and fantasy stories from emerging authors, illustrated by emerging artists. I’ve been reading and reviewing these since WotF 31. This year’s collection includes a loyal virtual-cat companion, some … Continue reading
Merge Coffee
Merge Coffee is a cute lite merging game with a coffeeshop theme, from CulinarySchools.org. This is a low-pressure match and merging game, with a calm coffee shop feeling. In Merge Coffee, players have a 7X7 grid on which to place coffee … Continue reading
Timelines of “The Day Tripper”
I have to warn you that James Goodhand’s new novel The Day Tripper has a pretty rough start. At the beginning, manic pixie dream med student Holly is just too perfect to take seriously and her man-child boyfriend Alex isn’t particularly pleasant … Continue reading
