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WEBSep 2, 2024 · … when I was suddenly hired by the Submerged Log Company on a 3-month contract as a junior news reporter (my first ever published piece is here), but with the main aim of re-starting a column in The Times that the S.L. C. had had in the 1960s. This was all very ancient history — before the internet; before the web; when the best I had at home was a dial-up modem; when the only computer in ...
About Occam’s Typewriter
WEBOccam’s Typewriter is a community project to bring together current and erstwhile scientists who like to write. We have all been blogging at various places over the years, independently and on networks. But we felt that the time was right to create an independent network, so we could all have editorial freedom yet also have the benefits of a ...
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WEBAug 26, 2024 · Peter F. Hamilton: The Void Trilogy (The Dreaming Void/ The Temporal Void/ The Evolutionary Void) I started to read this years ago but it didn’t seem to make much sense, and I was put off by fantasy elements that didn’t seem to sit well with the SFnal framing. Now I know the reason — the Void Trilogy follows on pretty much directly from the Commonwealth Saga (Pandoras Star, Judas ...
October | 2021 | Occam's Typewriter
WEBI’ve been catching up with some reading this weekend: a year’s worth of (hard copy) THE issues, picked up now I’m finally able to get back into my department, and Vaxxers – sub-titled The Inside Story of the Oxford Astrazeneca …
Wild! | Occam's Typewriter
WEBMay 31, 2021 · … a sylvan glade of mature, deciduous trees such as beech and oak. All it takes is time – but not as much time as you’d think. These two pictures were taken in a patch of land only a few acres in extent that sits almost unnoticed between a council estate, a farmer’s field, a go-karting track and a country lane.
December | 2021 | Occam's Typewriter
WEBContinuing the theme of gently exercising the writing muscle by composing posts made mostly of pictures, I present here the round-up of what I think are the best photographs that I took in the past year. 2021 has been a …
Books of the Year | Occam's Typewriter
WEBDec 31, 2021 · There are only eighteen in total, a singularly unimpressive tally – fewer even than I managed in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. The only thing I miss about my commute is the loss of a regular slot for reading during the working week.
Launch | Occam's Typewriter
WEBNov 26, 2021 · My latest book A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth has now come out in the US and Canada. Actually, it came out 17 days ago, and it’s available from St Martin’s Press and the proverbial All Good Bookstores, but I haven’t had a moment to carve a word on this until now.It was pipped at the post by versions in Dutch and German; a Spanish edition is now available for preorder; and of ...
December | 2020 | Occam's Typewriter
WEBI made what I think was a smart move at the beginning of 2020. Instead of waiting until the year’s end and then struggling to recall what I thought of the books I had read, I created a Twitter thread of …
Message for my reader | Occam's Typewriter
WEBJul 10, 2022 · For the longest time I have been meaning to get back to—ugh!—blogging. Regular readers, should any remain, will see that this is the first post of 2022. I haven’t broken any promises with the hiatus and have no excuses to make.
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