Notes From the Buffer Zone Archives
Notes From the Buffer Zone
Wed, Feb 24, 2010
This morning I found myself worrying about the iPad.
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Mon, Jan 4, 2010
Every October it starts: someone sends me a request to compile some kind of best of the year.
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Mon, Oct 12, 2009
In June, I will complete my 50th year on this Earth.
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Tue, Sep 1, 2009
When historians look back at the summer of 2009, they may call it the beginning of the end of monolithic culture.
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Fri, Jun 26, 2009
“Every single story in this newscast would have been science fiction in 1970.”
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Sat, May 2, 2009
I was born in 1960, seven months before John F. Kennedy said in his inaugural address that “a torch has been passed to a new generation.”
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Thu, Feb 26, 2009
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Sun, Dec 21, 2008
Recently, a former student of mine and I exchanged e-mails about short story collections.
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Mon, Oct 20, 2008
God bless Dave Eggers.
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Sun, Aug 24, 2008
At the World Science Fiction Convention in Denver this past August, I had a realization.
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