The Great Gig in the Sky
“Our universe may exist inside a black hole,” says Inside Science Minds guest columnist, Nikodem Poplawski.According to Poplawski, the theoretical physics behind the assumption of our existing inside...
View ArticleWord of the Day: Didapper
(n.) commonly, a little grebe or dabchick, a small water bird that dives underwater; also, a name for someone who disappears for a time before bobbing up againHis papers looked organized, from the...
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If a weasel can shut down the Large Hadron Collider, we can finish that novel.And barring any more weasel problems, the future of physics is very exciting.Did you celebrate email debt forgiveness...
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Rumpus Original Fiction: April, 1968
Tony and I went out delivering late one spring morning. As we stood on the edge of the Panhandle waiting for a gap in the cars speeding down Oak Street, Janis Joplin drove by in a convertible, hair all...
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Weekly Geekery
Are cheetahs sprinting toward extinction? Chinese-American writer Ken Liu brings “silkpunk” to science fiction. Self-publishing coaches—the new sexy in a Fifty Shades world. Under Italian mountains,...
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Robot Office: Something about This Game…
Related Posts: Robot Office: Work Travel Robot Office: A Prayer Robot Office: The Great Outdoors Robot Office: Emergency Repair Robot Office: Pour-Over
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Poet-Cosmologist: A Conversation with Bruce Beasley
In 2002, as a student at Western Washington University, I enrolled in a course called “Experimental Poets and Poetics” with Bruce Beasley. For years since, I have struggled to find the words for how...
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Part Skeptic, Part Believer: A Conversation with Cai Emmons
Climate change gets plenty of news coverage these days, and speculative fiction has long been a place to find stories set amid harrowing, post-apocalyptic worlds destroyed by global warming. But it is...
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Opening New Doors and Windows: Talking with Daniel Chacón
The characters in Daniel Chacón’s Kafka in a Skirt: Stories from the Wall® live at the intersection of technology and the unfathomable nature of time and existence. It’s not that the rules of physics...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #225: Debra Jo Immergut
When I heard Debra read aloud to our group of VCCA fellows from the beginning of her ingenious novel, You Again, I was absolutely hooked, so much that I was disappointed not to be able to read the rest...
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Matthew Salesses
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Matthew Salesses about his second novel, Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear (Little A, August 2020), the George Costanza method of writing, exploring the paths we do and...
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