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Tippo
Rummaging around in the internet I stumbled across the phrase “Tiptree’s hippopotamus.” Since I was friends with “James Tiptree”/Alice Sheldon, I was curious as to what that could mean. I typed the phrase into Google, which didn’t give me much. However, it did provide an AI summary: The “Tiptree’s hippopotamus” refers to the trophy given to…
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Poul Anderson
Poul Anderson, The Van Rijn Method (Baen 2008) Poul Anderson, David Falkayn: Star Trader (Baen 2009) Poul Anderson (1926-2001) was one of the classic science fiction writers who I used to read regularly (without coming close to reading all his work), generally feeling after each book or story, yeah, that was pretty okay. But occasionally,…
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Here We Go Again
Well, let’s try this again. It turns out that starting a blog because I was housebound after heart bypass surgery in 2022 was overly optimistic. I didn’t have the energy to stick to it – I was doing very little reading, much less wanting to write about it. Then, late in the year, Ann’s mom…
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Everest
A National Geographic special publication As far as outdoorsy stuff goes, I like walking in the woods. That’s about as far as it goes. I’ve never spent a single night in a tent. I certainly haven’t done anything remotely strenuous. But I like reading about people who do, and watching tv shows and movies about…