My introduction to cosmology was Carl Sagan’s Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980). What struck me was Sagan’s cadence. He spoke slowly, almost reverently, as though the subject demanded awe before explanation. He framed knowledge as a moral duty: to understand our place, to cultivate humility in the face of immensity. The series worked because itContinue reading “From Cosmos to Multiverse”
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Gene Wolfe
Although I would not call myself a science-fiction aficionado, two of my favorite authors are Frank Herbert and Gene Wolfe. Two days after my father died, Wolfe followed (April 14, 2019), two lights dimming together, oddly twinned in my memory. Wolfe’s obituaries appeared in the Washington Post, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. Wolfe’sContinue reading “Gene Wolfe”
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