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Category Archives: Ray Bradbury
Undertale – Player Agency in a Sci-Fi World
Whenever I’m reading a book that transports me to another world, or another version of reality, I always think about what I would do if I were in the main character’s shoes. That’s part of what it’s like to relate to a character – to experience their story alongside them, seeing how they act, and […] Continue reading
Posted in dystopia, Fahrenheit 451, Frankenstein, Interactive Media, Mary Shelley, Ray Bradbury, SF, Undertale, Video Games
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On Physics Tests and Roses
I was miffed. “The names of the scientists are going to be on the test?” My honors physics teacher, who I regarded as a generally reasonable man, had lost touch with reality and was resorting to the lowest of low testing methods: rote memorization without purpose. Memorizing formulas was one thing–those were tools, mental shortcuts […]
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Posted in art, books, college, consciousness, culture, God, history, Paradox, Ray Bradbury, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Scientists, Time, Time travel
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Gray-tinted humans
At its essence, a human is human. A soft, malleable layer of flesh stretched over imperfectly constructed bones that act as a sort of rudimentary cage to guard the spongy organs we depend on to pulse life through us. Our flesh can be punctured. Our bones can be broken. Our organs can rupture. We are […]
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My Time Travel Paradox
I’m exactly the kind of person that authorities shouldn’t allow anywhere near a time machine. For starters, I’m comically clumsy – I literally can’t be trusted not to “wander off the path” and ruin the present, Sound of Thunder style. I would be that girl who accidentally convinces Monet to abandon painting or Jefferson his […]
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