Dr. Shaun Duke, Professional Nerd

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Need Your Help: Literary SF?

I need your help, everyone. I’m considering doing an independent study course on literary SF and I’ve come to the realization that I don’t really know of any literary SF. So far my potential options include Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, which I’m told is SF, and something by Haruki Murakami (possibly Kafka on the Shore, […]

MEME: 100 SF books according to a teacher!

There’s been a list going around as of late of the top 100 SF books chosen by a teacher. Seeing how I plan to be a teacher one day and also have hopes to see SF become more common in public schools, I’m going to turn this one into a meme. Here are the rules: […]

Ask the Bloggers: The Rewards of Blogging – SMD Version

I’m not a selfish guy, so I thought I would repost SMD’s response to several of my Ask the Bloggers questions while he is away. You can see other responses at my blog, Grasping for the Wind, but for now, enjoy SMD’s. What has been your most rewarding moment as a blogger? Probably the most […]

I Have Returned!

This is going to be a really fast update post. I’m back from Oregon and a lot of things happened while I was gone (things not related to my vacation of course). I received four rejections for four different short stories, had some guest bloggers post some interesting material, and came home to a huge […]