Some of this happened and some of this didn’t. It’s all true. I was reading the Paris Review for the first time. It was late and I was inebriated and enthralled with a long-unpublished interview they did with Ray Bradbury. As a lover of both sci-fi and superb writing in general, Bradbury is one of …
NOW ALL HANDS, COMMENCE FIELD DAY. GIVE THE SHIP A CLEAN SWEEP DOWN FORE AND AFT. XO WILL MAKE HIS INSPECTION AT 1100. NOW ALL HANDS, COMMENCE FIELD DAY. The voice over starship Thatcher’s speakers was crisp, hurried, and bored. Seven months of unbroken routine has a lobotomizing effect on a crew and today was …
