Satirical Story “Hannah’s Cupboard (or Charlie Kristos, King of the Gods)” published by The Scalar Comet

My new satirical short story "Hannah’s Cupboard (or Charlie Kristos, King of the Gods)" was published yesterday by The Scalar Comet, a very funny humor-centric publication and I just wanted to both post about it (with a link to the original) and thank the fine editors at The Scalar Comet. I've come to really enjoy …

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Dadakuku publishes my binary code poem HUMANITY NEVER EXISTED!

https://dadakuku.com/2025/06/27/humanity-never-existed/?page_id=7604 Many thanks to petro, the great Dadakuku editor for indulging my decades-long rather simplistic obsession with toying around with the concept of binary code supplanting genetic code as defining humanity in so many ways. I actually put much more into these than one would realize as I don't start and stop with a simple …

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A Review of Bill, The Galactic Hero

Bill, the Galactic Hero by Harry Harrison My rating: 3 of 5 stars This Starship Troopers/Catch-22 anti-military, anti-war satire is one of the most depressing, bleakest books I have ever read in my life. When I started reading it, I thought, how amusing. How over the top. How funny. Poor Bill. Poor hick. Drugged and …

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A Review of Hogfather

Hogfather by Terry Pratchett My rating: 3 of 5 stars Call me stupid, but this was one of the more confusing books I've ever read -- and I really like Pratchett. His humor is definitely on show in this book, which is good, but I never got what was happening in the book's plot. It …

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