Some Notes on the Earth Seen From Space

We have turned the sky into a mirror of our persistence and our forgetting

1. It has been almost 58 years since astronaut William Anders lifted his Hasselblad camera toward the window of Apollo 8 and captured the now-iconic image of Earth hovering beyond the gray, desolate edge of the moon, blue-white and small and fragile, hanging in the pure blackness of space. How beautiful ...
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Some Notes on the Earth Seen From Space

The Monster Became My Companion

A conversation on Cyborg Fever, the cold stream of data, and why entropy wins out

Any book worth reading will refuse to be paraphrased. So it goes with Laurie Sheck’s new hybrid novel, Cyborg Fever (Tupelo Press, 2025). Even the truncated plot summary, rich as it is—a young orphan falls into a coma when his beloved nun suddenly stops speaking to him, and in the ...
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The Monster Became My Companion