General thoughts16 Sep 2008 01:41 pm
So why start another blog?
No reason except for myself. I’ve kept a journal for many years, sometimes daily, sometimes not. However, I wanted to muse some more on a number of topics and see if I could find people who would muse with me.
This blog grew out of a joint project my son and I planned together. We were going to build a web site dedicated to Science Fiction, but his medical condition worsened and we never got it started before he died. Since that time, www.in2scifi.org has existed as a remembrance of my son. This is going in a somewhat different direction. I have a number of things I’d like to get done:
- Frequently in reading Science Fiction, I run across quotes that impress me as having real life implications. I’ve always wanted to collect them somewhere. This will be my place to collect and comment on them.
- Particular stories impress me and I want a place to comment about them. I put SOME comments in my paper journal, but this will be a better place to put them.
- SciFi raises a lot of interesting questions I’d like to muse on. Some of my favorites are older stories that raise issues that the author thought we’d already have dealt with.
There are probably lots of other things I’ll come up with, but this is a good start.