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The Quest for Saint Aquin

Friday, March 13th, 2009

How could we get it more wrong! Recently, I’ve been reading or rereading classic science fiction stories. And I ran into The Quest for Saint Aquin, a short story by Anthony Boucher that first appeared in 1951. Although not evident at first, the story has all to do with robots and how [...]

Keeping Digital Information

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Denvention 3, the 66th World Science Fiction Convention, featured a panel by librarians discussing the future of libraries. This was an eye-opening panel. Who would have thought librarians could be so passionate? And that they had such large axes to grind against school administrators and local governments. But what concerns me [...]