The book opens on an eleven-year-old boy sitting on a tree stump at the bottom of a garden, watching a beetle climb a blade of grass and deciding it has a clearer sense of direction than most people he knows.

Five new episodes at Arktoons!

When Ronald Reagan gave the 1983 speech announcing what became the Strategic Defense Initiative, much of the policy framework behind it had been worked out at a science fiction writer’s house in Studio City, California.

The final part of the forty-third tale from The Animal Book

And an observably unsustainable philosophy

Performative AI critics are protesting in vain

An excerpt from There Will Be War

Fixing an obvious infelicity

The book opens on an eleven-year-old boy sitting on a tree stump at the bottom of a garden, watching a beetle climb a blade of grass and deciding it has a clearer sense of direction than most people he knows.

Five new episodes at Arktoons!

When Ronald Reagan gave the 1983 speech announcing what became the Strategic Defense Initiative, much of the policy framework behind it had been worked out at a science fiction writer’s house in Studio City, California.

The final part of the forty-third tale from The Animal Book

And an observably unsustainable philosophy

Performative AI critics are protesting in vain

An excerpt from There Will Be War

Fixing an obvious infelicity