Build your own like me

That's my senator

#15: The Unsleeping Eye, D.G. Compton (1974) Amazing novel about sensationalistic reality TV and the commodification of death. Originally published as The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe (a better title) in the UK.

Never confuse the will of the majority god with the will of

#14: The Einstein Intersection, Samuel Delaney (1967) Found during some auspicious book-foraging in Bloomington with @lecagle.bsky.social and @sharonyamsy.bsky.social

#13: Black Easter, James Blish (1967) This book rules because it approaches demon-summoning with something close to dispassionate scholarly objectivity.

#12: Get Out of My Sky, ed. Leo Margulies (1960) Once worth 45 cents, now worth slightly more. The title, of course, must be read in the voice of Harrison Ford in Air Force One.

Now in print

#11: Icehenge, Kim Stanley Robinson (1984) Fun fact: KSR wrote a dissertation on Philip K. Dick under the direction of Fredric Jameson. www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/content/nove...

#10: Night's Master, Tanith Lee (1978) "An adult fantasy." This book is probably worth $60 or so on eBay.

We're back with more vintage sf paperbacks. #9: Hestia, C.J. Cherryh (1979)

#8: Chronocules, D. G. Compton (1970) "This was followed by an exodus of cats from the kitchen, all missing large and useful areas of fur ..." (9).

#7: The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin (1974) An all-timer

#6: People of the Talisman, Leigh Brackett (1964) Absolute s-tier cover on an amazing little novella. Hard to over-recommend Brackett's planetary romance fiction.

#5: Neuromancer, William Gibson (1985) My old mass market copy, bought for peanuts from The Dawn Treader in Ann Arbor when I was an undergrad

If Sweden wins, I will shamelessly debauch myself with aquavit and licorice ice cream. Here is one of the best meals I've ever eaten -- rooster meatballs from the Kulturen open-air museum restaurant in Lund.

#4: Gather in the Hall of the Planets, K.M. O'Donnell (pen name of Barry Malzberg, 1971)

#3: Ascendancies, D.G Compton (1985) Compton is, incidentally, my nominee for the single most underrated sf author ... he writes like Graham Greene if Greene actually invested in his female characters.

Random vintage sf paperback appreciation entry #2: The Dark Side of the Earth, Alfred Bester (1964)

This is now a random vintage sf paperback appreciation account. Entry #1: Joanna Russ, Picnic on Paradise (1986)

Finally completed the covert mission of citing a @contrapoints.bsky.social video in an academic paper

God bless the Journal for the History of Rhetoric for publishing this thing I've been trying to finish and circulate since 2018 or so. After these proofs go to press, I'll finally attain the mantle of Annoying Person™ who has published about atheism. #teamrhetoric

the best sentence I've ever written

Live footage of me managing to schedule my article-revisions due date on top of all that stuff this week

Still at it, @lecagle.bsky.social 💉💉

Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Gorgias, Hollow Knight, Octavia Butler, A Tribe Called Quest, the Oxford comma, and RoboCop.

Saying rhetoricky things tomorrow about two of my favorite writers 📍ISHR 2025 in Copenhagen

Thanks, Google. No one wants this. (1775 is the correct answer.)

Student eval comment from this semester, lol

When you're almost 40 and play too much hockey