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Notes on early medieval Scotland. The Kingdom of Strathclyde. Newer posts →. The Over Kirkhope Stone. The burial ground may have been associated with a very early church and, although there are no visible traces of such a structure, the first element of the place-name. Website (see the link below). The stone is now at the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh. The close-up of the Orans figure at the top of this blogpost is taken from an illustration in Allen and Anderson’s. Searching for Pictish gold.
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sententiae et clamores: February 2012
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Literature, Religion, Politics, Rants, Murmurs, and Medieval History. Monday, February 27, 2012. I said I would blog. I have not blogged. But here is an image from a medieval manuscript of monkeys on stilts (which I found googling images for "medieval illumination shame"). Links to this post. Monday, February 13, 2012. Liam and some others vowing to blog more. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Follow me on Twitter. Liam's currently-reading book montage.
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Rocketpunk Manifesto: The Weekly Moonship
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SCIENCE FICTION - FANTASY - HISTORY - SPACE - AND OTHER SPECULATIONS. Days of Future Past. Friday, June 26, 2015. The phrase sticks in my mind. I surely read it in an SF novel, or more than one, and perhaps in a variation like daily moonship. Since it is an evocative phrase, at any rate to me, let us evoke something from it. And we will suppose that these ships mostly fill their seats, unlike the rather similar spaceliner in 2001. That carried Heywood Floyd to the Moon in solitary VIP splendor. So ab...
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Rocketpunk Manifesto: The Space Authority and the Orbital Patrol
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SCIENCE FICTION - FANTASY - HISTORY - SPACE - AND OTHER SPECULATIONS. Days of Future Past. Saturday, July 4, 2015. The Space Authority and the Orbital Patrol. Longtime commenter Ferrell made an observation about growing space traffic in the discussion on Adventures in Orbital Space. That fits neatly into the setting portrayed in The Weekly Moonship. Okay, let's be honest. This blog does not encourage war in space (or anywhere else). But that certainly hasn't kept me from writing about space warfare.
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Rocketpunk Manifesto: What Do AIs Want?
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SCIENCE FICTION - FANTASY - HISTORY - SPACE - AND OTHER SPECULATIONS. Days of Future Past. Friday, January 21, 2011. What Do AIs Want? Freud did not ask that question, but my commenters have, in the last thread, unconstrained by the post having nothing to do with artificial intelligence. Note: This is a feature, not a bug.). So Suppose that we do. Develop high level AI, as in smarter than us. And what, as a consequence, will be its relations with us? 1 It will be a murderous psychopath. This is the o...
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de præterito tempore: NanoWinner!
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Tempvs fvgit et verba volant sed scripta manent. abovt history, writing, classics, and historical fiction. Yeah, I did it! I went over 50K words this evening, during our write-in in Madrid. Now I only have to keep writing until I finish the novel. I'll keep you updated! Good luck to you Nanowriters! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). La odisea del escritor. AOAO web site (spanish). Mary Harrsch's History web.
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Rocketpunk Manifesto: Artificial Intelligence, Human Intelligence
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SCIENCE FICTION - FANTASY - HISTORY - SPACE - AND OTHER SPECULATIONS. Days of Future Past. Friday, September 14, 2012. Artificial Intelligence, Human Intelligence. The comments on a recent post about science fiction, A Literature of the Possible. Included a considerable subthread about HAL, the ship's computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Here I will take the discussion in another direction, going boldly where many have gone before, including my own blog post on What Do AIs Want? This was not expected becau...
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Rocketpunk Manifesto: Hard SF: So Hard It's Impossible ...?
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SCIENCE FICTION - FANTASY - HISTORY - SPACE - AND OTHER SPECULATIONS. Days of Future Past. Monday, February 25, 2008. Hard SF: So Hard It's Impossible ? This post is once again thanks to Bernita. Who a few days ago wrote a boffo review. A new novel by Ann Aguirre. The book sounds like a winner, but I rather ungenerously used the comments to register a general SF grump. As thumbnailed by Bernita,. In one form or other this is what Romance. Does this expose my grump at Bernita's blog as bullshit, and incid...
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Rocketpunk Manifesto: "I am become Death, destroyer of worlds"
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SCIENCE FICTION - FANTASY - HISTORY - SPACE - AND OTHER SPECULATIONS. Days of Future Past. Monday, August 6, 2007. I am become Death, destroyer of worlds". Sixty-two years ago today - yesterday, for most of you reading this, since I live near the tail-end of time zones - the Enola Gay. Dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima. If you want to know more or less everything non-classified about nuclear weapons, I recommend the Nuclear Weapons FAQ. Numerous mirror sites carry it as well.). This makes traditional g...
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de præterito tempore: Wreck of Shipwreck
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Tempvs fvgit et verba volant sed scripta manent. abovt history, writing, classics, and historical fiction. Apparently, this year was not called for. Or so it seems. Two weeks to go on nanowrimo, and I cannot find all my documentation for the book. One of the trouble of moving, I guess. I know it's in here, but in which box? Well, as all my books are well packed, I cannot easily retake any of my old projects, Historical Fiction is hard without data! Or the almost infinite oral tradition involving witches (.
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