The Dream Café

I have no idea if this will be at all interesting to anyone, but I just wrote a chapter that gives me an excellent opportunity to talk about my process.

Jules Part of, and apart from: that was me during the Uprising of 243-244.

Sometime in the late 1970s, my wife and I attended a meeting of the Minnesota Science Fiction Society.

Never during my lifetime has the question “But what can I do?”

A reminder that Narrativity 2025 is coming in June, June 26th to be exact, and pre-registration is open.

Delta Airlines is evil and I will never forgive them.

This is a term I’ve heard often, as one of the goals of art, without really understanding it.

The 1872 presidential election (Ulysses Grant vs Horace Greeley) represented the last time progressive change was brought about through a national election.

In the late 60s and early 70s there was an epidemic of “everything I hate is fascism.”

If you strip away the rhetorical flourishes, here is what we are told every day: 1) If you aren’t Jewish, you may not disagree when I say something is antisemitic. 2) Any objection to the genocide being carried out against Palestinians is antisemitic.

Once upon a time a man named Barry Goldwater appeared on the political scene.

It’s the day of international working class solidarity, so a few quick answers to some things I’ve been hearing. 1) No serious revolutionist has ever wanted to make things worse in order to incite revolution.

Someone on Twitter said she was stuck on her current project and asked for suggestions for getting unstuck.

Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Epilogue

(I’ll be adding this to my socialism FAQ, but for now I think it deserves it’s own post.)

A place to discuss Tsalmoth for those who have read it.

Let’s talk about art and commerce.

Among the most engaging passages in Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution are those dealing with the weeks and days leading up to the October insurrection, when the Petrograd Soviet, under the leadership of the Bolsheviks, began pushing.

All science is social science, because the development of knowledge of the laws of nature take place within society, are subject to the limitations of resources produced by society, and in turn have an effect on society.