Tag Archives: Science Fiction
Change
In 1955 John Wyndham published a novella titled The Chrysalids in the UK and Re-Birth in America. It is not a religious text. It is about post-apocalyptic mutants. But it’s also one of the best books about change– the inevitability of change and resistance to change– that I’ve read in a long time. It really …
Solitary Wanderer
Excerpted from The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle, © 1957: It is curious in how great a degree human progress depends on the individual. Humans, numbered in thousands of millions, seem organized into an ant-like society. Yet this is not so. New ideas, the impetus of all development, come from individual people, not from corporations …
Abbie's Tree House 