From mighty oak trees, little acorns grow

And, on occasion, vice versa.

Faster than a speeding photonEarly in my blogging career, I did several posts about tropes in SF, collectively "Trope-ing the Light Fantastic." These posts were quite popular; more than seven years later, one of them (Trope-ing the light fantastic (life-sign detectors) ranks #5 in all-time popularity on this blog.

From those humble beginnings there developed ... a lot. The outcomes overlap, and they include:
An expanded series of treatments of SF tropes for Analog (...