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Thought by R WJan 11, 20219:39 amFebruary 6, 2021

(Sunday Thought) Same As The Old War

“With an enemy committed to fascism, advocacy—the threats, the words—are not mere dogma. They are themselves weapons—weapons of incitement and intimidation, often as effective in achieving their ends as would be firearms and explosives brandished […]

Fiction by R WJan 10, 202110:34 amJanuary 8, 2021
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(Fiction) The View From Space

After the events of this week, it only seems appropriate to share this one again… In 1848, I was living in Hungary—or what was then Hungary. That was the year people across Europe finally imagined […]

Art by R WJan 8, 202110:28 am
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(Art) The High Illustration of Jon Foster

Foster is a cover artist and illustrator whose detailed, colorful works bridge the gap between illustration and painting. While rich and detailed like traditional painting, they consciously use the techniques of stylized illustration, such as […]

Thought by R WJan 3, 202112:25 pmFebruary 5, 2021

Cyberpunk III: We Will Not Invade Cyberspace

Like the early internet, AR is mostly a novelty at this point, such as the London art project in the video below, but the applications are legion. Almost anything humans manipulate in the world, from […]

Art by R WDec 29, 202010:46 amDecember 29, 2020
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(Art) Fake Maps of Real Places, Real Maps of Fake Places

Two artists are featured in this post. The first is Robert Hodgin, who developed, as he called it, “a procedural system for generating historical maps of rivers that never existed.” For a brief description of […]

Art by R WDec 24, 20209:32 amDecember 24, 2020
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(Art) My Dystopian Library – Pt. 3

It’s a well documented fact that when I’m between projects or can’t write for some reason, I design book covers I don’t need. All of these were actual old covers that I modified to make […]

Fiction by R WDec 22, 202010:48 amDecember 21, 2020
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(Fiction) The Most Dangerous Man in the World

The ruined church had been swept clean of dust and cobwebs but still smelled faintly of earth and mildew. The altar was bare. There was a stack of wooden pews in the knave. I heard […]

Art by R WDec 20, 20209:59 amDecember 20, 2020
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(Art) The Dark Subconscious of Alessandro Sicioldr

For fans of Hieronymous Bosch… Alessandro Sicioldr’s work adopts a similar style and many of the same motifs: the egg, the cave, the pregnant Madonna, the beaked ghoul. But where Bosch’s phantasms were spiritual, Sicioldr’s […]

Art by R WDec 18, 202010:20 amDecember 20, 2020
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(Art) My Dystopian Library – Pt. 2

It’s a well documented fact that when I’m between projects or can’t write for some reason, I design book covers I don’t need. All of these were actual old covers that I simply modified to […]

Fiction by R WDec 17, 20209:53 amFebruary 25, 2021
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(Fiction) What is the Zero Signal?

It was trash day. Blue bins lined the residential street like silent mourners while dark clouds rolled overhead making threats they couldn’t keep. Nio and Quinn sat in an unmarked government vehicle three streets down […]

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