Viriconium

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Books – 2022

Jan 26, 2023 1 min read

Even as I whined about losing my reading habit, I managed to read a surprising (to me) number of books through 2022. One reason I think I didn't notice is because very few of them started out bein…

The calculus of creative discipline

Oct 27, 2019 5 min read

Culture Op-eds classical mechanics creative discipline critical points Dan Shechtman differential calculus EPR paradox fantasy fiction Imre Lakatos JK Rowling Karl Popper literary criticism M John Harrison Malazan Book of the Fallen mathematical analysis nerdism Niels Bohr Paul Feyerabend Philosophy of Science quasicrystals replication crisis smooth functions Steven Erikson Thomas Kuhn Viriconium world-building

Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building. World-building is dull. World-building literalises the urge to invent. World-building gives an unnece…