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Odd Girl Out Book Review

Odd Girl Out Book Review

Odd Girl Out: Quadrail Book 3 by Timothy Zahn 366 pages Published by Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy; Reprint edition (July 28, 2015) ASIN B00Z8POPPS I picked this book up in the library earlier this year, read the first chapter, and realized that a lot of things were being

LinkFest 2018-07-16

LinkFest 2018-07-16

Ways to think about machine learning I've been a skeptic about artificial intelligence in general, and a critic of the ways the actual technology has been hyped. This is a pretty reasonable take from someone who is willing to invest a lot of money in machine learning. Machine

The Long View 2006-09-18: The Benedictine Jihad II

A long post on the intricacies of the argument after Pope Emeritus Benedict's Regensburg lecture. After all this time, the thing that strikes me really is that Benedict meant what he said, and said it deliberately, but that his point was a bit softer and more subtle than

The Third Lynx Book Review

The Third Lynx: Quadrail Book 2 by Timothy Zahn 352 pages Published by Tor Books (October 30th, 2007) ISBN 9780765317322 This cover is my favorite of the whole series. The first volume I bought was a reprint in ebook form; it has a stylized cover with a man carrying an

The Long View 2006-09-15: The Benedictine Jihad

Pope Emeritus Benedict later gave a speech in Jordan that is sometimes described as an anti-Regensburg speech, but I honestly think he really believed what he said both times. The Benedictine Jihad Guy Fawkes Day came early in the Muslim world, to judge by these scenes of effigies of Benedict

Night Train to Rigel Book Review

Night Train to Rigel Book Review

Night Train to Rigel: Quadrail Book 1 by Timothy Zahn Kindle Edition, 394 pages Published by Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy; Reprint edition (July 28, 2015) ASIN B00Z8POQDO Night Train to Rigel is a murder mystery set on an interstellar train, mixed with something very much like Cold War

Linkfest 2018-07-09

The Good, the Pulp, and the Superversive – Introduction Superversive is a neologism intended to be the contrary of subversive. H. P. at Every Day Should Be Tuesday tries to figure out what the term is really getting at. While there is a small group of authors that like to describe