West of the Moon

Archive for July, 2006

roundup.

I’ve been trying for about a week now to corral my thoughts on another step in the syllabus construction process, namely, how to deal with historiographical issues and other debates in the secondary literature. I’m not getting anywhere with that. (Oh, and also, I’m returned from the Las Vegas Birthday Extravaganza, but I’m [...]

Tags: miscellany

a couple of answers.

What I assumed was a quick thinking-time housecleaning break yesterday turned into a full-scale cleaning assault. Somewhere around the point where I decided it was a good idea to sweep behind the hot-water heater, I realized what was going on. On some level, it is apparently very important to me to have a [...]

Tags: birthday, history, strange horizons

imitative learning.

During my second year in graduate school, as part of my department’s requirements that we take one graduate course in another department, I took a seminar on child development with Alison Gopnik in the psychology department. I was extremely fortunate all throughout graduate school to have stellar coursework and brilliant professors, and this seminar [...]

Tags: imitative learning, psychology

Twenty Epics: Online Launch Party!

Welcome to the Twenty Epics online launch party! Once upon a time, we’d hoped to have an real live launch party for the book at WisCon, but publication delays and other small problems made that impossible. Thanks to the initiative and energy of some of our fabulous and talented authors, though, we’re doing [...]

Tags: twenty epics

epix!

The long-anticipated day is upon us! Twenty Epics is finally available for purchase. (Lulu | Amazon) You’ll be hearing more about it in the next week or two–it looks like we’re having an online launch party soon–but there’s one thing I wanted to address first. The ever-fabulous John Scalzi posted about [...]

Tags: twenty epics

fruited purple waves.

I love the Fourth of July.
When I was a kid, we used to go to the big Fourth of July parade in a nearby town. “Big” is, of course, a very relative term; it wasn’t big like the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade or anything. Just bigger than the other parades around, like [...]

Tags: boston, fourth of july, holidays