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Computational Philosophy: Ted Chiang’s Stories as Engines of Inquiry

August 9, 2019 Theodore McCombs

Ted Chiang’s second collection of award-winning stories, reviewed.

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In Appreciations, Reviews Tags Ted Chiang, Exhalation, Stories of Your Life, Short Stories, Theodore McCombs, Theodicy, Robots, Time Travel, Existentialism, Artificial Intelligence
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Speculative Slavery: Two PYMs and an Irritating Hologram

June 12, 2015 Theodore McCombs
Illustration for The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, A.D. McCormick (1898).

Illustration for The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, A.D. McCormick (1898).

A look at how slavery haunts the speculative imagination, from Mat Johnson's Pym to Star Trek: Voyager's holographic Doctor.

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In Speculations, Reviews Tags Mat Johnson, Pym, Edgar Allan Poe, Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark, Race, Slavery, Star Trek, Artificial Intelligence, Gothic Fiction, Theodore McCombs, Critical Theory, African-American speculative fiction
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