http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/ Benjamin Rosenbaum's unregenerate musings on writing, parenting, technology, politics, speculative fiction, fabulism, imaginary friends, and shiny gumballs. en-us 2012-01-24T22:36:55+01:00 http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2012_01.html#000914 Sixth in a series of letters my great-great-great-grandfather wrote home from the American Civil War, exactly 150 years ago. Camp... History benrosen 2012-01-24T22:36:55+01:00 http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2012_01.html#000913 A new story of mine, "Things Exist By Imitation of Numbers", is up at Daily Science Fiction. It's the fruit... Writing Announcements benrosen 2012-01-18T13:15:22+01:00 http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2012_01.html#000912 Fifth in a series of letters my great-great-great-grandfather wrote home from the American Civil War, exactly 150 years ago. The... History benrosen 2012-01-15T09:31:22+01:00 http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2012_01.html#000911 Attentive readers may recall that I finished the first draft of a novel (once called Resilience, now currently known as... Writing benrosen 2012-01-11T19:25:05+01:00 http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2012_01.html#000910 Fourth in a series of letters my great-great-great-grandfather wrote home from the American Civil War, exactly 150 years ago. Camp... History benrosen 2012-01-06T14:10:05+01:00 http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2012_01.html#000908 Aliette de Bodard, Nancy Fulda, Stephen Gaskell, and I have written a series of short-shorts that will come out every... Writing Announcements benrosen 2012-01-02T18:19:40+01:00 http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2011_12.html#000906 Whenever I post a comment this long somewhere, I feel obligated to turn it into a blog entry; on G+,... Children benrosen 2011-12-13T17:32:25+01:00 http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2011_12.html#000904 ...who asked me about what classes I liked, and got more of an answer than they were probably expecting (sometimes... Philosophizing benrosen 2011-12-04T12:38:02+01:00 http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2011_12.html#000903 Camp Hutchins, Dec. 3rd, 1861 My Dear Wife: It is with pleasure that I sit down to let you... History benrosen 2011-12-03T09:13:15+01:00 http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2011_11.html#000902 Right, so as part of the new plan to revivify the blog, I am going to be posting the letters... History benrosen 2011-11-24T08:22:21+01:00 http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2011_11.html#000901 Once upon a time we were young and wrote things of great aspiration and intensity, and of great and fragile... Writing benrosen 2011-11-21T17:12:54+01:00 http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2011_11.html#000899 Yes, my dears, my little online journal here has languished. It's difficult keeping a little mom-and-pop shop like this open... Writing benrosen 2011-11-16T16:04:33+01:00 http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2011_11.html#000896 This blog is currently under attack from a new generation of comment spambots. (Perhaps this is karmic justice for my... Philosophizing benrosen 2011-11-01T15:40:26+01:00 http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2011_10.html#000894 Strange Horizons has been producing amazing free speculative fiction every Monday for eleven years. They pay pro rates for original... Other Things That Happen benrosen 2011-10-04T18:15:02+01:00 http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2011_09.html#000893 I am reading Middlemarch, by George Eliot. It is a terrific, funny, masterful book. Middlemarch is set in the 1820s.... Philosophizing benrosen 2011-09-20T12:40:16+01:00