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Alec Nevala-Lee

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The archived blog posts of author Alec Nevala-Lee

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June 2025

  1. Worlds in Collision

January 2025

  1. The Death of Odin

November 2024

  1. On getting over things

May 2024

  1. The coldness of competence
  2. Fuller at the 92Y

August 2023

  1. Back to the Future

January 2023

  1. Ringing in the new

August 2022

  1. A Geodesic Life

June 2022

  1. Running it up the flagpole

February 2022

  1. Inventing the future

July 2021

  1. Allegra Fuller Snyder (1927-2021)

June 2021

  1. Talking with Barry Malzberg

April 2021

  1. The gigantic problem

December 2020

  1. Ben Bova (1932-2020)

November 2020

  1. Quote of the Day

October 2020

  1. The Singularity is Near

July 2020

  1. The Return of “Retention”

April 2020

  1. Listening to Syndromes

January 2020

  1. The books and the wall

November 2019

  1. Shoji Sadao (1926-2019)

August 2019

  1. Onward and upward

July 2019

  1. Burrowing into The Tunnel

June 2019

  1. Notes from all over

April 2019

  1. “At the Fall” and Beyond
  2. Love and Rockets

March 2019

  1. Outside the Wall

February 2019

  1. Art and Arcana
  2. Sci-Fi Strawberry in Savannah

January 2019

  1. Writing the future in Oak Park
  2. Visions of tomorrow

December 2018

  1. The last resolution
  2. Quote of the Day
  3. Flash Gordon and the time machine
  4. The personality of style
  5. The writing in the dust
  6. Quote of the Day
  7. Attention and attenuation
  8. Quote of the Day
  9. The temple of doom
  10. Quote of the Day
  11. The evensong
  12. “It was an adventure…”
  13. The automated and flawless machine
  14. The unstructured source
  15. Across the universe
  16. Quote of the Day
  17. The fairy tale theater
  18. Quote of the Day
  19. Updike’s ladder
  20. Quote of the Day
  21. The unfinished lives
  22. Quote of the Day
  23. The greatest game never played
  24. Quote of the Day
  25. The man on the table
  26. The asymmetry of history
  27. Go set a playwright
  28. Quote of the Day
  29. The tip of the spear
  30. Quote of the Day
  31. Two ways of looking at Nancy
  32. Quote of the Day
  33. The Great Man and the WASP
  34. Quote of the Day
  35. The dark side of the limerick
  36. Quote of the Day
  37. The scientist in private
  38. The threads of the mind
  39. The long night
  40. Quote of the Day
  41. The Bad Pennies, Part 4
  42. Quote of the Day
  43. The Bad Pennies, Part 3
  44. Quote of the Day
  45. The Bad Pennies, Part 2
  46. Quote of the Day
  47. The Bad Pennies, Part 1
  48. Quote of the Day
  49. The secret planet
  50. The abbreviation of experience

November 2018

  1. Quote of the Day
  2. The apostolic succession
  3. Quote of the Day
  4. The passion of the pulps
  5. Quote of the Day
  6. The private eyes of culture
  7. Quote of the Day
  8. Ghosts and diversions
  9. Quote of the Day
  10. A deeper intuition
  11. The play of symbols
  12. The authoritarian personality
  13. Quote of the Day
  14. Amplifying the dream
  15. Quote of the Day
  16. Beyond the Whole Earth
  17. Quote of the Day
  18. The creeps of the cosmos
  19. Quote of the Day
  20. Which lie did he tell?
  21. Quote of the Day
  22. Contemplating the Sphinx
  23. Clinging to the iceberg
  24. A Fuller Life
  25. Quote of the Day
  26. The tunnel and the labyrinth
  27. Quote of the Day
  28. The end of an era
  29. Quote of the Day
  30. The soul of a new machine
  31. Quote of the Day
  32. The ethereal phase
  33. Quote of the Day
  34. Life on the borderlands
  35. On being a problem
  36. Levitating the Pentagon
  37. Quote of the Day
  38. The confidence tricksters
  39. Quote of the Day
  40. The dark suspense
  41. Quote of the Day
  42. Astounding Stories #22: None But Lucifer
  43. Quote of the Day
  44. The Other Side of Welles
  45. Quote of the Day
  46. Barriers to entry
  47. The poet at the typewriter
  48. The Men Who Saw Tomorrow, Part 3
  49. Quote of the Day
  50. The Men Who Saw Tomorrow, Part 2
  51. Quote of the Day

October 2018

  1. The Men Who Saw Tomorrow, Part 1
  2. Quote of the Day
  3. Fire and Fury
  4. Quote of the Day
  5. The beauty of the world
  6. Quote of the Day
  7. The domain of the marvelous
  8. The ambassador to the infinite
  9. The unknown future
  10. Quote of the Day
  11. The new mutation
  12. Quote of the Day
  13. The mystical vision
  14. Quote of the Day
  15. Beyond the golden age
  16. Quote of the Day
  17. The Thing from Another Manuscript
  18. Quote of the Day
  19. Becoming the parrot

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