(With apologies to Hal Draper) By the time the Office of Epistemic Hygiene was created, nobody actually read anything. This was not, the Ministry constantly insisted, because people had become lazy. It was because they had become efficient. Why spend six months wading through archaic prose about, say, photosynthesis, when you could simply ask the… Continue reading MS Fnd in a Modl (or, The Day the Corpus Collapsed)
Tag: fiction
The Tourist
Changing rooms are the same all over the galaxy and this one really played to the stereotype. The lights flickered that little bit more than you’d want them to, a sizeable proportion of the lockers wouldn’t lock and the whole room needed a good clean. It didn’t fit with the eye-watering amount of money we… Continue reading The Tourist
Topical References in Novels
For reasons too boring to go into, I’m currently reading The Big Picture by Douglas Kennedy. I really don’t recommend it. It’s a rather dull story of a rich American whose life is suddenly changed in dramatic ways. But one thing interested me in it. That’s the way that the topical references in the novel… Continue reading Topical References in Novels