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12 Songs About Robots

12 Songs About Robots

Patrick D. Joyce

None of these twelve songs are about real robots — the self-propelled mechanical lackeys that vacuum our homes, deliver our packages, and show us the surface of Mars. But some of the...

12 Songs About Robots

Patrick D. Joyce

None of these twelve songs are about real robots — the self-propelled mechanical lackeys that vacuum our homes, deliver our packages, and show us the surface of Mars. But some of the...

John Milton, Rock Star

John Milton, Rock Star

Patrick D. Joyce

You think you know something about John Milton. He was blind. He was English. He was a Puritan. He wrote that interminably long poem about Adam and Eve, the one...

John Milton, Rock Star

Patrick D. Joyce

You think you know something about John Milton. He was blind. He was English. He was a Puritan. He wrote that interminably long poem about Adam and Eve, the one...

A Peripheral Glossary

A Peripheral Glossary

Patrick D. Joyce

My own pleasure as a reader of that type of fiction is being left in the dark, confused, gradually putting it together.- William Gibson That’s exactly the kind of reader you...

A Peripheral Glossary

Patrick D. Joyce

My own pleasure as a reader of that type of fiction is being left in the dark, confused, gradually putting it together.- William Gibson That’s exactly the kind of reader you...

Why I Write

Why I Write

Patrick D. Joyce

I write because I like words. The way they sound. Alone. In sequence. The way they mean things. How their meanings change, multiply, when collected together. I like sentences even...

Why I Write

Patrick D. Joyce

I write because I like words. The way they sound. Alone. In sequence. The way they mean things. How their meanings change, multiply, when collected together. I like sentences even...

Will Poole's Island

Patrick D. Joyce

Classic tales can–and should–be told and retold. Will Poole’s Island, by Tim Weed, feels like one of those stories: comfortable, like something you’ve owned forever, yet fresh, because you’re seeing...

Will Poole's Island

Patrick D. Joyce

Classic tales can–and should–be told and retold. Will Poole’s Island, by Tim Weed, feels like one of those stories: comfortable, like something you’ve owned forever, yet fresh, because you’re seeing...

The Ides of April

Patrick D. Joyce

I was born on the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. The day the Titanic sank. A day feared and dreaded by Americans. Tax Day. April 15. The Ides of April....

The Ides of April

Patrick D. Joyce

I was born on the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. The day the Titanic sank. A day feared and dreaded by Americans. Tax Day. April 15. The Ides of April....