Articles Tagged with literature

Tilting at windmills

The vanishing knight

Where did Don Quixote go?

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Future puzzles

When today is past

What will need to be explained to future readers about today’s literature?

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Many books

Too many?

How big should your library be?

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Historical fiction (III)

The uses of King Arthur

Legends are different kind of historical fiction.

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Historical fiction (II)

Parallel genres

We continue a comparison with science fiction.

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The synthesis project

Ways of being intelligent

We present an idea that won’t work.

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Old science fiction

The trouble with predictions

It didn’t happen that way, but we enjoy the stories in spite of that.

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Searching for a word

At the source

There are many things we should already have read.  Sometimes we get around to reading them.

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The danger of the best

Unexpected effects of good reading

Some books don’t seem quite as good as we remember.

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Putting pen to paper (II)

The novelists’ instrument

We examine an incident in which new technology did not change literary genres.

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