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Matthew S. Williams
Goodreads Author
Born
in Ottawa, Canada
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Genre
Influences
Member Since
April 2011
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/houseofwilliams
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The Cronian Incident
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Whiskey Delta
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2013
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Papa Zulu
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2014
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Flash Forward
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2014
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Source
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2011
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The Jovian Manifesto
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Strategizing against Sweatshops: The Global Economy, Student Activism, and Worker Empowerment
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Liability
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2011
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Flight of the Icarus
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Smartbomb
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Episode 109 of Stories from Space is Live!
In this latest episode, I discuss the Standard Model of Cosmology, how scientists arrived at it, and how recent discoveries are causing some to question whether or not it is correct. To break it down, it is known as the Lambda Cold Dark Matter (ΛCDM) model, which basically combines the following theories.
The Big Bang: The theory that the Universe expanded from an initial state in which all matter Read more of this blog post »
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"The Ross 248 Project is an interesting collection of stories (and a piece of nonfiction) surrounding a space ship that travels to the ross 248 system, and settles the system in an effort to prevent a disaster from wiping out the human race. The stori"
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"This is a superb and fun collection of stories (kind of a future history of sorts) by various authors set in a scenario created and edited by Johnson and Roy (a NASA scientist and a retired engineer respectively). The scenario is the future first hum"
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By science piece, do you mean the terraforming chapter? Thank you so much, I wrote that.
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“There are no injuries that run so deep that one can't add insult to them and make them feel even worse.”
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“When the universe presents unexpected gifts to those who feel undeserving, how else are they to react, except with sheer paranoia?”
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“It was unhealthy to get too attached. Such things were best reserved for people who had a life expectancy”
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| Challenge: 50 Books: Alicja's Reads 2014 | 155 | 143 | Sep 27, 2014 12:51PM | |
| The History Book ...: ALICJA's 50 BOOKS READ IN 2014 | 137 | 154 | Dec 30, 2014 04:38AM | |
| WACKY READING CHA...: 4X4/4X14 Challenge | 72 | 124 | Apr 22, 2015 01:12PM | |
| Modern Good Reads: What are you writing right now? | 31 | 52 | Mar 27, 2017 03:18PM | |
| World, Writing, W...: November 2017 Group Read Author Interview: Matthew S. Williams | 10 | 11 | Nov 08, 2017 07:01PM | |
| World, Writing, W...: November 2017 Group Read: The Cronian Incident #BOM-nov-2017 | 58 | 32 | Aug 22, 2018 04:01PM |
“When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.”
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“Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.”
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“The difference between stupid and intelligent people – and this is true whether or not they are well-educated – is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. ”
― The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
― The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
“Ronald Reagan has a stack of three-by-five cards in his lap. He skids up a new one: "What advice do you, as the youngest American fighting man ever to win both the Navy Cross and the Silver Star, have for any young marines on their way to Guadalcanal?"
Shaftoe doesn't have to think very long. The memories are still as fresh as last night's eleventh nighmare: ten plucky Nips in Suicide Charge!
"Just kill the one with the sword first."
"Ah," Reagan says, raising his waxed and penciled eyebrows, and cocking his pompadour in Shaftoe's direction. "Smarrrt--you target them because they're the officers, right?"
"No, fuckhead!" Shaftoe yells. "You kill 'em because they've got fucking swords! You ever had anyone running at you waving a fucking sword?”
― Cryptonomicon
Shaftoe doesn't have to think very long. The memories are still as fresh as last night's eleventh nighmare: ten plucky Nips in Suicide Charge!
"Just kill the one with the sword first."
"Ah," Reagan says, raising his waxed and penciled eyebrows, and cocking his pompadour in Shaftoe's direction. "Smarrrt--you target them because they're the officers, right?"
"No, fuckhead!" Shaftoe yells. "You kill 'em because they've got fucking swords! You ever had anyone running at you waving a fucking sword?”
― Cryptonomicon
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I don't want to argue with that Bill guy anymore about definitions because all I can do is point to a dictionary and if that isn't proof enough, he wins I guess because there will never be better proof. So I give up on that, I have no way to win when logic is ignored.But I would like to point out how interesting it is that a user commenting in a thread about 1984 seems to be practicing doublethink. Refusing to acknowledge that his definition is incorrect even when confronted with so much evidence. Big Brother has just raised your chocolate ration from 30 grammes to 20 ;)
Judyta wrote: "Thank you for accepting my invitation :-)"Hey, no problem, always interesting in swapping ideas! Especially with a fellow historian.
