Tap dancing with cosmology. Essay. 1100 words, 6-minute read. The Center Cannot Hold By Ray Tabler Galileo Galilei was a pioneering, renaissance astronomer. But he is most famous for being dragged before the inquisition for daring to state that the Earth orbited about the Sun. Trouble was that the Catholic…
Month: September 2025
Business As Usual During Alterations – A Review
When the music changes tempo. Essay. 1100 words, 6-minute read. Business As Usually During Alterations – A Review By Ray Tabler There are some short stories that lodge in the memory, popping up unexpectedly years later when events stir the sediment of the mind. Such a story is Business As…
1941 – More Dangling Threads
An underappreciated classic. Essay. 500 words, 3-minute read. 1941 – More Dangling Threads By Ray Tabler Recently, a friend (Dharma Windham) posted about re-watching a movie, Stephen Spielberg’s 1941, a 1979 screwball historical comedy. The film is set in Los Angeles, weeks after the Pearl Harbor attack, not an obvious…
The Care and Feeding of Heresy
Heresy is the whole point. Essay. 600 words, 3-minute read. The Care and Feeding of Heresy By Ray Tabler There are no limits upon the writing of science fiction and fantasy. Any crazy, improbable, even impossible situation the human mind can conceive is fair game. The only constant is the…