Articles Tagged with literature

Stories in the air (II)

Published on April 12, 2022April 11, 2022 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Retellings

Why would you listen to a story you already know?

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Stories in the air (I)

Published on April 5, 2022April 4, 2022 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

The definitive version

There are some stories you just know.  How?

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Tilting at windmills

Published on December 7, 2021December 5, 2021 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

The vanishing knight

Where did Don Quixote go?

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Future puzzles

Published on August 31, 2021August 30, 2021 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

When today is past

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

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Many books

Published on April 27, 2021April 26, 2021 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Too many?

How big should your library be?

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Historical fiction (III)

Published on August 11, 2020August 11, 2020 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

The uses of King Arthur

Legends are different kind of historical fiction.

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Historical fiction (II)

Published on August 4, 2020August 3, 2020 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Parallel genres

We continue a comparison with science fiction.

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The synthesis project

Published on December 3, 2019December 3, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Ways of being intelligent

We present an idea that won’t work.

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Old science fiction

Published on October 15, 2019October 15, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

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

Published on September 24, 2019September 20, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

At the source

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

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