I may also have written on this on earlier versions of my website:
2006 – 2011 (link coming soon!)- did not have a blog!
2012 – 2013 (link coming soon!)2014 – 2019
Everything I’ve written on the subject, from the beginning of this version of the site.
I may also have written on this on earlier versions of my website:
I started reading Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore tonight and even a chapter in, I am just delighted. (I feel obliged to ask: is Mr. Penumbra a secret alias for Mr. Rogers?)
Robin Sloan has a great and glorious talent, and it is this: to take things we have learned to treat as mundane, and infuse them with enough mystery-or-magic-or-both that we feel the wonder of them again. It is genuinely marvelous.
In which what was supposed to be a quick, Robin Sloan- and Craig Mod-inspired, note on attention and cryptothings… somehow morphed into the dream of a research program for something much, much different.