It is almost certainly true that Logan’s Run is more famous as a 1976 film than it ever was as a book. At a mere 133 pages, the latter is little more than a novella, and while it’s certainly interesting, it’s far too thinly-written to allow us to empathize with the characters in the way [...]
Download the PDF. Economic models of the traditional and well-known sense usually describe either manufactured physical goods or services performed, both of which are scarce resources: only so much grain can be grown, for instance—or widgets churned out of an industrial plant, or pipes plumbed by professionals. Short of espionage, even the market for Information [...]
In what has become an unofficial theme for my reading selections this year, I’ve chosen yet another classic or important piece of science fiction; Asimov himself is considered, if not the father of science fiction (that title is usually reserved for Verne), then at least one of its major players during the genre’s ascension in [...]
It would be virtually impossible to overstate the size, scope, and power of Wal-Mart. It’s the largest retailer in the world, the largest public company of any sort in the world (by revenue), and since opening its Superstores it has also become the largest grocer in the world. Everyone is likely familiar with the most [...]
Hot on the heels of a book about a monster comes a new about monsters generally, though I honestly did not plan it that way. Though I’m not an avid fan of old (or new, for that matter) monster movies, I am generally interested in the engines of culture which generate monsters. This is one [...]
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I read Beowulf in high school, as is the case for a great number of young adults, and was unlikely at that time to be able to appreciate it. The book is, after all, critically easy to misunderstand, misinterpret, underappreciate, or otherwise abuse. J.R.R. Tolkien famously wrote that Beowulf‘s importance as a poetic work far [...]
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