Determination (Part 5 of 11)
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It had been good to see everybody. At the start they had caught up, and everyone had reacted with the expected shock and sympathy at Matthew’s near-accident and commiseration concerning the strange power outage at work. But throughout the session he still felt a nagging sense of unease, and so as everyone bustled about exchanging goodbyes, Matthew quietly asked the pastor if he could talk with her for a few minutes once everyone was gone. He waved…
Determination (Part 4 of 11)
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It was Wednesday before Matthew stopped nervously scanning roads for any signs of out-of-control drivers. Several days of mundane and slow-moving urban traffic had worn the edge off of his adrenaline, and things were finally getting back to normal. He felt like he was cheating, somehow, that a near-death experience should have a more lasting effect on his psyche.
Then again, it’s not like I want to be afraid of sidewalks.
It was Wednesday, and that meant…
Book Review: The Gods Themselves
This isn’t exactly a fair book review. I’ve read Isaac Asimov’s The Gods Themselves before, and even though it was years ago I remembered it pretty well. So when I saw it at a used book sale I deliberately picked it up again.
The Gods Themselves is really three novellas in sequence, loosely tied together by a MacGuffin piece of free-energy technology that, of course, is never really free. The first section is a rather typical-for-Asimov discussion between scientists resenting the success of the inventor/discoverer of said technology that’s basically a snapshot of academia. This is all right, and actually…