Author: The Uplift Blog
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Sundiver by David Brin: the ‘eponymous’ review
The beginning of it all… literarily speaking.
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Spaceship Earth: the Shape of our Planet!
Or “Can’t We Just Stop Destroying Things?” I just watched Spaceship Earth, which is the story of the Biosphere2 project outside of Tucson, Arizona. I remember touring Biosphere2 with my youngest, a science buff, while visiting my dad in the 2000s. (I miss you, Dad.) It felt like I was inside a terrarium. Warm, moist,…
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A new eye for Frankenstein.
It sure is intimidating to review Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Percy Shelley. What could I possibly add to what has already been written? So let’s get this out of the way: 5 STARS! Now onto more interesting things: as I reread the book for the third time, I read it with an…
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‘The opposite of Uplift’ in The Lemming Condition
This is a question in my mind: What is the opposite of Uplift? Is it Putdown? Some books so obviously fall into the Absolute-Opposite-of-Uplift category, and I would like a name for it. Why this negative stuff? I thought this was an uplifting blog? In order to understand what is uplifting, I think I need…
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Odd #1: Gondor + Earth
This scene always made my skin crawl.
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What is uplifting? A spark. An idea. A connection.
What do I mean by “The Uplift Blog”? My original idea for this blog was to look at Uplift in Science Fiction, the name being formalized in the Uplift series by David Brin. A book review blogger. I guess in a way the novel I am writing is in the Uplift genre. But if you…
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Am I mad at the Democrats? Are you? (a rare analogy, for me)
I’ve been feeling upset with the Democrats in the House and Senate. Not for anything they’ve been doing. But what they are failing to do. Failing, in my eyes, to stand up to an ILLEGAL COUP. Sometimes I hold the wrong person accountable for wrongs. Standing up to the actual perpetrator feels daunting, and pointless.…
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A rare Black New Moon: this Monday night 12/30/2024
This Monday night will be the 2nd New Moon in December, thus will be a “Black” Moon. I read that this is rare. I guess it is rare from an arbitrary POV — that a thing we call a month has 2 of something that it usually has only 1 of. Rare. A 2nd Full…