UC Berkeley.
Originally uploaded by Susan Groppi.
Oh lovely weekend! Daylight Savings has -finally- left us, and not a moment too soon. (Several weeks too late for my taste, actually, given how grim the mornings have been.) And it’s gotten chilly, which makes it actually feel like autumn. (We’ve even had the first [...]
The newest installment of Escape Pod features Stephen Eley’s story The Dinner Game, from Twenty Epics. ( Lulu | Amazon | BN ) (Also currently available at Borderlands Books in San Francisco and the Barnes and Noble in downtown Berkeley, in limited quantity.) It’s read by Maia Whittaker, who has a [...]
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Posted in science fiction, writing and editing | No Comments »>Partway through composing a couple of longer and more substantive posts, but in the meantime, I’ve been accumulating odds and ends, things I meant to draw some attention to. On with the eclecticism! (And hello, people coming from the History News Network! Nice to have you visiting.)
Last year, when A. was in [...]
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Posted in personal | 1 Comment »>Autumn in Berkeley.
Originally uploaded by Susan Groppi.
Sometime in college, probably freshman year, my friend Dan asked me to take a walk with him. We’d just had a heavy snowfall, and Dan wanted to go down by the river to take some photographs. As we picked our way over the icy sidewalks, Dan explained [...]
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It’s fund drive month at Strange Horizons! We haven’t been publicizing this as much as we ought to, and I have a large share of the blame for that, but still, fund drive month! Your donations allow Strange Horizons to continue providing high-quality speculative fiction (and nonfiction! and poetry! [...]
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Posted in science fiction | 10 Comments »>My lecture course this semester, the one on the history of premodern science, is divided into six major units. Each unit deals with a major geographical region, and the first lecture of each unit is a walkthrough of the geography, political history, and agricultural development of that region. There are a number of [...]
Posted in academic | 3 Comments »>Oregon fans.
Originally uploaded by Susan Groppi.
Usually, when I come to campus on weekends to work, everything is very quiet. This Saturday, it was a zoo. It was homecoming weekend, so the campus was crowded with alumni, and Sproul Plaza was packed full with a student-run carnival. (Complete with food! I went [...]
You can tell that it’s midterm time. There are the obvious indicators–more students waiting in the hallways to speak to professors, library study rooms all booked up. There are other indicators as well. Walking through campus, I’m seeing a lot more jeans and sweatshirts, not as many stylish (and styled) outfits. [...]
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