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Jamie Todd Rubin

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Jamie Todd Rubin writes fiction and nonfiction for a variety of publications including Analog, Clarkesworld, The Daily Beast, 99U, Daily Science Fiction, Lightspeed, InterGalactic Medicine Show, and several anthologies. He was featured in Lifehacker’s How I Work series. He has been blogging since 2005. By day, he manages software projects and occasionally writes code. He lives in Arlington, Virginia with his wife and three children. Find him on Twitter at @jamietr. ...more

Seeking the Sense of Wonder: A Re-Discovery in Five Acts

I. The Nine Planets

The first time I experienced a sense of wonder was upon arriving home from the Franklin Township Public Library and tearing into the book I’d just checked out: a nonfiction astronomy by Franklyn M. Branley titled The Nine Planets. I was still learning to read, and I can clearly recall wondering if reading was worth the struggle. The Nine Planets made it worth the struggle. Here

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40k Book Club: If By Reason of Strength - Technothriller, Science Fiction 1 11 Oct 06, 2011 12:04PM  
40k Book Club: An Engaging Story Where Metaphores Can Trap You 1 5 Jan 27, 2012 12:04AM  
Adventures in Sci...: AISFP 253 - Jamie Todd Rubin, BEYOND THE SUN 1 3 Apr 08, 2014 06:18AM  
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Seneca
“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.”
Seneca, Natural Questions

Laurence J. Peter
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
Laurence J. Peter

Friedrich Schiller
“The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.”
Friedrich von Schiller, Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua

Harlan Ellison
“The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.”
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55880 Q&A with Jamie Todd Rubin — 74 members — last activity Dec 08, 2011 05:04AM
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