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Scores

by John Clute

30 January 2012

The pure modernist extremism of Kafka is to show us a world without bling.

Paraphernalia: FIADSBLTPPUTPWYP

by Mark Plummer

23 January 2012

I don’t count myself as part of the dinner party wing of fandom, the people who seem to see SF conventions primarily as an assembly point for a series of epic meal excursions.

Dice and D-Pads: Jumping to Beginnings

by Robyn Fleming

9 January 2012

My husband and I had a pretty funny conversation with my mother this past New Year's Eve.

Lexias: Kipple

by Matthew Cheney

2 January 2012

In a recent essay in The New York Times, Jonathan Ames wrote about kipple. I was thrilled. Not just because it’s nice to see other people writing about the messes of their lives, but also because kipple has been a favorite term of mine ever since I encountered it in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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