Why Working From Home Is Both Awesome And Horrible
Many dream about a job which will allow them to work from home. After all, there’s something appealing about the idea of not needing to put on pants to clock in. Unfortunately though, such a gig isn’t without problems. Reprinted with permission from Matthew Inman aka “The Oatmeal,” a former web designer turned comic artist.…
A naked princess and slave rebellions in Edgar Rice Burroughs’ first Martian trilogy
In the second installment of our “Reading Barsoom” series, we delve into the swashbuckling wonders of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ first three Mars novels, A Princess of Mars, Gods of Mars, and Warlord of Mars. The first book of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s famous Mars series, A Princess of Mars, gets off to a creaky start. A…
Searching for reality at the Philip K. Dick festival
Last weekend, hardcore Philip K Dick fans trekked to the high Rocky Mountains for a festival of Dickian dimensions. There were Dick scholars, biker bars, library lectures, Techgnostic side-trips with Erik Davis, and an epic, weekend-long attempt to define reality. Phil Dick’s science fiction often features characters alienated by the technology that surrounds them, overwhelmed…