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From an Ultimate Dim Thule

Feb 15, 2009 | Chronicles

Or Diligently Seeking Sidney Sime Anyone recall Sidney H. Sime? I have to confess I didn’t, but his name came up, as the saying goes, the other day. In a book by H. P. Lovecraft. Lovecraft was a great inventer of mythical (and generally long-lost, terribly distasteful...

Aspriation, Application, Abnegation, Abdication

Feb 1, 2009 | Chronicles

Or An Alliterative Throwing-In of the Towel Every now and then, a person just gets too busy to think. So, I confess. The following is an admission of failure – and a newsletter with little or nothing to say. (Which, it must be said in passing, has never been a...

Konrad Gesner and the Jenny Hanivers

Feb 1, 2009 | Chronicles

Or Wishful Thinking, Mythological Science and Easy Money The other day, as I was reading Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve, something stuck in my mind – the name of Anna Fang’s airship, the Jenny Haniver. Naturally, something stuck in one’s mind requires prompt...