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It’s no accident “scammers” and “spammers” are only one letter apart. In most cases, their roles overlap. That is to say, scammers send a massive number of unsolicited email (spam) hoping a few naive people will take the bait. Obviously, Home for Fiction also receives some such traffic. I’ve several safeguards in place, so I […]

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This post has all the ingredients of an old man tilting at windmills or rosy retrospection and all that, but at least I have backups! That is to say, I’m not alone in lamenting the state of cinema today and dreaming of other cinematic realities. This post is based on an ongoing discussion I’m having […]

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If you missed the “new beginning” post, I recently decided to shake things up regarding Home for Fiction. By the way, this was a few months after I had already taken control of my own site, reprogramming it from scratch (on top of WordPress, of course) and getting rid of all the useless stuff. And […]

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When I make something new, such as a program, a book, or a music album, I often write a blog post about it. Sometimes this might span more than one post – think of The Perfect Gray and its review – but it’s far less often to see two different facets of the same work. […]

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Labor is dead; the era of work is over. And no, just because you are still employed in a sort-of-9-to-5 well-paying job, it doesn’t mean the statement is wrong – just as having just eaten doesn’t mean there’s no world hunger, or snowing where you are doesn’t mean there’s no such thing as climate change […]

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The Immigrant Trilogy comprises three previously published works: To Cross an Ocean: Apognosis, The Other Side of Dreams, and The Storytelling Cat. These three works can be read independently – indeed, the order doesn’t matter – but only by reading all three of them can a reader appreciate the full scope of the themes involved. […]

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“The future ain’t what it used to be” is an oft-quoted sentence. It’s supposed to be funny, but few realize it contains a concept that is important to writing and philosophy alike. This sentence contains what I refer to as a nested temporality. People usually think of the past, the present, and the future as […]

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Yeah, that’s one of those deliberately provocative titles of mine. The thing is, the word “culture” has such diverse meanings that it makes it easy to be offended by the claim, Cultures Are Disgusting. I mean, if we talked about bacterial growth on a Petri dish – a culture – few would disagree with it! […]

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As I mentioned in my post on shame saving the world, it was Dostoevsky who famously claimed that beauty would perform the miracle – with a Greek blogger offering a much needed correction: Beauty will save those who can see it. But let’s see another candidate: Can femininity save the world? In fact, fuck it; […]

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On October 14 2025, a few months from now at the time I’m writing these lines, something special takes place in the context of computers and operating systems. It’s the day when support ends for Windows 10. And, to throw a science-fiction twist into the mix, I’d say this is the day I anticipated when […]

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