Paul Levinson's Infinite Regress

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• The Difference Between Fantasy and Science Fiction
  on Jan 15, 2017
  If you click your heels together three times and say there's no place like home, and that gets you across the universe, that's fantasy. If you click your heels together three times, and the spark that results touches a vulnerable spot in the space-t...
• Colony 2.1: Prelude
  on Jan 13, 2017 in Colony Donald Trump Fear the Walking Dead FlashForward Josh Holloway Lost Sarah Wayne Callies television The Man in the High Castle
  Colony was back tonight with the debut of its second season, with an episode that was mostly prelude, and, like the first season, pretty good.A couple of general impressions:  Colony now feels a little like FlashForward (cars suddenly stopping w...
• Frequency 1.11: The Unkilling
  on Jan 12, 2017 in Frequency (TV) television time travel
  Frequency is winding down to what are likely its three final episodes, and tonight's episode 1.11 kept up the pattern of the series getting better and better.We left Raimy last week having just killed the Nightingale serial killer - something she cou...
• Vikings 4.17: Ivar's Wheels
  on Jan 12, 2017 in television Vikings
  A superb Vikings 4.17 last night, on more than one level.The best scene was Ivar riding the one-horse chariot Floki made for him, at Ivar's request.  He didn't quite get the chance to dispatch Lagertha - thanks to another great scene, with Bjorn...
• The Perversity of Things: review #7 of X: The Invention of Invention and the Advent of Science Fiction
  on Jan 10, 2017 in Alfred North Whitehead Amazing Stories Analog Magazine Grant Wythoff Hugo Gernsback The Perversity of Things
  Continuing with my reviews (#7 of X) of The Perversity of Things: Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction, edited by Grant Wythoff (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) - which will be less frequent now, given the end of the winter bre...
• The Affair 3.7: The White Shirt
  on Jan 9, 2017 in television The Affair
  Another powerful, somewhat inexplicable, episode - 3.7 - of The Affair tonight. The Helen and Noah episodes both conclude with slightly different but completely compatible scenes of the two making love in bed in the basement of Helen's place. That wa...
• Fauda: Beyond Homeland
  on Jan 9, 2017 in Fauda Homeland Lior Raz television
  The new season of Homeland will debut next Sunday - here's my review of the first episode - but if you want to see a series that makes Homeland look like, well, not a walk in the park, but is better than Homeland in just about everything it does so w...
• Spectral: What Done It
  on Jan 6, 2017 in movies Spectral
  I saw Spectral, a new Netflix movie, last night.  A pretty good, classic example of a what-done-it story.Whodunnits are the stock-in-trade of mystery and detective stories.  What-done-its move into the realm of science fiction, where the ke...
• The Perversity of Things: review #6 of X: Thought Experiments and Toys
  on Jan 6, 2017 in Benjamin Harrison book reviews Chauncey Depew Grant Wythoff Grover Cleveland Hugo Gernsback William Orton
  Continuing with my review (#6 of X) of The Perversity of Things: Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction, edited by Grant Wythoff (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) - focusing now on pages 37-45 of Wythoff's rich 59-page Introductio...
• Frequency 1.10: The Clarinet of Time
  on Jan 5, 2017 in Frequency (TV) television time travel
  Just three more episodes of Frequency after tonight's 1.10, and the vice of time travel and paradox is beginning to tighten - nicely for the narrative, painfully for our heroes.Raimy is more keenly aware than ever of how any change in the past, done...

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