Monthly Archives: August 2015

The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees by E. Lily Yu

I re-read “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees” by E. Lily Yu yesterday.  Find it here, at Clarkesworld. What a wonderful story that is. It brings “Animal Farm” by George Orwell to mind for obvious reasons – anthropomorphic animals … Continue reading

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The Guns of August

The opening paragraph of The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman: So gorgeous was the spectacle on the May morning of 1910 when nine kings rode in the funeral of Edward VII of England that the crowd, waiting in hushed and … Continue reading

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