Dr. Shaun Duke, Professional Nerd

Editor. Writer. Professor. Host.

Politics: I Bid Thee Farewell

I posted a bunch of tweets about why I’m giving up talking about politics (or dealing with it), but the Google+ version more effectively says what I want to say here: I’m going to give politics a rest for as long as I can. That doesn’t mean I won’t talk about issues of gender or […]

Book Review: “Shoresteading” by David Brin (from Gateways)

(I’ve decided to review each of the stories in Gateways — a collection edited by Elizabeth Anne Hull in honor of Frederik Pohl — individually.  I will collect my thoughts about the anthology as a whole later.  I’m doing this as a kind of experiment, as I find reviewing collections enormously difficult.) David Brin’s contribution […]