Monthly Archives: May 2020

More Standard SF Furniture: Robert Silverberg’s The 13th Immortal

Posted on 16 May 2020 by Mark R. Kelly

As I said in my previous post, I suspended reading for some weeks once the coronavirus lockdown began, in mid-March; things were too unsettled and uncertain to allow for the indulgence of sitting down and turning inward into a book. … Continue reading →

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Coronavirus Diary May 2020: Replaying the Myst games

Posted on 15 May 2020 by Mark R. Kelly

Here we are at the middle of May, some seven or eight weeks in to stay-at-home orders here in the Bay Area – when it started, my partner began working from home, except for the one day a week he … Continue reading →

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Academics

Posted on 15 May 2020 by Mark R. Kelly

(This is another essay to become a section of my “memoirs,” to be promoted to a page rather than a post, eventually.) It’s a truism that once you become an adult and have a career job, no one cares about … Continue reading →

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