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Tag: literature

  • Dan leans against a wall in a tropical park, writing on a log sheet.

    Found GC9MCDM The Queen Of Mystery

    After solving the riddle yesterday, my partner Ruth and I came up from the seafront to find this cache today. What a delightful spot to hide the cache, and what a wonderful puzzle (and spot of local literary history) with which to bring us here.

    Read more (53 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC9MCDM
    • posted 1 February, 2026
  • Image representing post: Basilisk collection

    Basilisk collection

    Blackle Mori's "Basilisk collection" is an amazing piece of alternate history science fiction, presented in the style of a Wikipedia article. Dan explains why it's so good and encourages you to read it.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (664 words)

    • Repost
    • of this original
    • 7 comments
    • posted 18 February, 2021
  • Ted Chiang Explains the Disaster Novel We All Suddenly Live In

    In an interview with Halimah Marcus of Electric Literature, Ted Chiang shares his thoughts on how the coronavirus crisis is, and is not, like a science fiction story.

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    • Repost
    • posted 7 April, 2020
  • Image representing post: The first lines of 10 classic novels, rewritten for social distancing

    The first lines of 10 classic novels, rewritten for social distancing

    Jessie Gaynor from Literary Hub rewrites the first lines of 10 classic novels for our new reality.

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    • Repost
    • posted 2 April, 2020
  • Comic, three panes. First pane shows derelict supermakets, caption: Scattered about, the putrefactive disease of the coronavirus lay slain. Second pane shows people celebrating, caption: Slain, after all men's devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, had created. Third frame shows the celebrating people in the shadow of a tripod war machine from War of the Worlds, caption: Martian fighting machines.

    Death Leaping from Man to Man

    Dan draws a topical comic.

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    • Comic
    • posted 25 March, 2020
  • 21 Books You Don't Have to Read (and 21 you should read instead)

    The 21 Most Overrated Books Ever (and 21 Books to Read Instead) (GQ) GQ asked its favorite new authors to dunk on the classics. We've been told all our lives that we can only call ourselves well-read once we've read the Great Books. We tried. We got halfway through Infinite Jest and halfway through the โ€ฆ

    Read more (127 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 28 April, 2018
  • Image representing post: EEBO-TCP Hackathon

    EEBO-TCP Hackathon

    Last month, Dan attended the EEBO-TCP hackathon, and worked alongside humanities researchers to collaborate on software that extracted previously unexplored data out of 25,000 recently-digitised 15th-17th century texts.

    Read more - about 7 minutes (1506 words)

    • Article
    • 11 comments
    • posted 22 April, 2015

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