e t ellison

book of the year winning science fiction/fantasy author

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Fascinatia

Quoth a Different Sort of Raven

Quoth a Different Sort of Raven

It is now established beyond even the echo of a ghost of a shadow of a doubt that The Usual Suspect is a raven fancier. A lot of people are saying (heh heh) that he’s a whimsy fancier, too. And when it comes to whimsy, there’s no whimsy like dark whimsy. And...

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Interstellar Dark IsoTown

Interstellar Dark IsoTown

For a guy who was fascinated by Gerard K. O’Neill’s space IsoTowns (lacking modern nomenclature, he called them space colonies), this interstellar IsoTown concept from the film “Dark City” strikes a chord. A diminished chord, but still a chord. Built for spurious...

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Quoth the Raven

Quoth the Raven

“You got a thing about ravens, ET?” One of the IPA gentlemen asked me that question as I kept showing them raven images and suggesting where they might go on the site. I thought about that question for a few seconds, then cringed and and shrugged. I could have said a...

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Timelies

No She Didn’t

No She Didn’t

The lads from the Institute for Perplexive Amusement hosted a sushi dinner to celebrate MVP status of my new website. Thus I learned that MVP is a term from the Lean Startup lexicon that means Minimum Viable Product. Happily for me, it does not mean Mitral Valve...

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The Resurrection

The Resurrection

Modernity rises! The doughty lads at the Institute for Perplexive Amusement have been busting their tails to get a new website built before Adobe pulls their hosting plug forever on September 26th. If you’re reading this you already know they won the day. According to...

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Got Lucky Today

Got Lucky Today

The Institute for Perplexive Amusement ("the Other IPA") officially agreed to produce my new website. And fast! Being a stealth entity, they were hard to find, but the 1200 were in my court today. As a bonus, I got an answer to my second biggest question. The guy who...

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