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Podcast #79. Reading. From ALL THE VISIONS. “What’s the point?”

Roy Whelden’s album LIKE A PASSING RIVER includes this recording of me reading from the ending of ALL THE VISIONS, wondering what’s the point of life at all. This recording was made early in 2005.

Podcast #78. Reading. From ALL THE VISIONS. “I’m going to die.”

Roy Whelden’s album LIKE A PASSING RIVER includes this recording of me reading “from the beginning of ALL THE VISIONS, talking about my realization at age 16 that eventually I have to die. This recording was made early in 2005.

Podcast #77. Reading. From ALL THE VISIONS, April 12, 2014

Reading the climactic rant from my Kerouac scroll novel, ALL THE VISIONS, at the Brainwash laundromat-cafe in the SOMA area of San Francisco for David Gill and his Pravic science-fiction zinesters. Plus a short Q&A on transrealism and the future of SF. About 20 mins long.

Getting Hyper for Borderlands, Saturday Afternoon

I’ve been in kind of a daze, wondering about how many planets there might be like ours, how many universe, how many intelligent races and, above all—how it is that we’re right here and now on a great planet like Earth. Divine Providence? A secret magic code? A umptifloptillion-superfaczillion-wubbawubbagodzillion rolls of the dice? One of […]

Against Recurrence #3: You Are Infinite? Making Endless Worlds.

As I mentioned in “Against Recurrence #1” contemporary cosmologists are inclined to say that the space of our universe is infinite. The whole infinite space was effectively filled with a giant flash about four billion years ago. In 2008, I was interested in a fairly simple model for this called the cyclic universe. Invented by […]

Against Recurrence #2: Am I a Finite Pattern?

I’m nowhere near finished reading Max Tegmark’s fantastic new book, Our Mathematical Universe, and my thoughts are still evolving. The stuff I’ve been discussing is in Chapters 5 & 6. of Tegmark’s book. Today’s post follows up on my post “Against Recurrence”: #1.” And I’m prompted to say more by the good comments on that […]

Against Recurrence: #2

I’m nowhere near finished reading Max Tegmark’s fantastic new book, Our Mathematical Universe, and my thoughts are still evolving. The stuff I’ve been discussing is in Chapters 5 & 6. of Tegmark’s book. Today’s post follows up on my post “Against Recurrence”: #1.” And I’m prompted to say more by the good comments on that […]

Against Recurrence #1: The Odds. Infinite Space.

Today I’m returning to a question that’s nagged at me for about fifty years. You might call it the question of recurrence. Would an infinite universe necessarily contain identical copies of me? My post today uses some of the material that I wrote for the preface of the 2004 edition of my nonfiction book, Infinity […]

Against Recurrence, #1

Today I’m returning to a question that’s nagged at me for about fifty years. You might call it the question of recurrence. Would an infinite universe necessarily contain identical copies of me? My post today uses some of the material that I wrote for the preface of the 2004 edition of my nonfiction book, Infinity […]

Photo Bin: N.Herbert, Occidental, SF, Journals.

I have a lot of old photos that I never got around to putting into a post. So I thought I’d reduce my inventory in a few long Photo Bin posts. But first a word from your sponsor. Click for a larger version of the book cover. Nice blurbs for my Journals from two of […]