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Jack McDevitt
- May 15, 2019
- 2 min
Blog #32
I’ve always been struck by the things we take for granted: electricity, plumbing, TV, cars and highways, doctors, newspapers. And a ton...
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Jack McDevitt
- Mar 15, 2019
- 2 min
Blog #28
Writing careers, like those of teachers, embody serious rewards but also require major investments in time and effort. And that’s not...
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Jack McDevitt
- Mar 7, 2019
- 2 min
Blog #27
Saga Press released Gregory Benford’s latest novel, Rewrite, shortly before the end of the year. Charlie Moment, a history professor...
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Jack McDevitt
- Jan 30, 2019
- 2 min
Blog #26
I’ve mentioned before that people at SF conventions or simply attending luncheons or in classrooms tend to get annoyed if a speaker...
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Jack McDevitt
- Dec 31, 2018
- 1 min
Blog #24
The arrival of a new year seems to be the time when we are most inclined to talk about what’s coming, what we need to do to make our...
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Jack McDevitt
- Dec 16, 2018
- 2 min
Blog #23
One of the more entertaining historical games we can play is what SF people call alternate reality, or history enthusiasts refer to as...
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Jack McDevitt
- Oct 31, 2018
- 2 min
Blog #21
Denver’s MileHiCon celebrated its 50th anniversary two weekends ago by inviting the author GoH’s from the previous cons to join the...
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Jack McDevitt
- Oct 15, 2018
- 2 min
Blog#20
Watching people trying to survive the current rush of hurricanes has been depressing. When we got back home after evacuating Irma last...
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Jack McDevitt
- Sep 16, 2018
- 1 min
Blog #18
September 16, 2018 Times of stress inevitably signal the value of friends, especially when you have no family within reach. There...
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Jack McDevitt
- Aug 30, 2018
- 1 min
Blog #17
The ultimate science fiction wonder, that our universe is only one in a multiple chain of universes, that it exploded into existence...
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Jack McDevitt
- Aug 16, 2018
- 2 min
Blog#16
The history of the sun that we grew up with was fairly dull, as we all know. Four and a half billion years ago, it was nothing more than...
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