Clockwork Dreams

Enthusiastically Unstable; Eloquently Retrotech

Tracing the threads back through time

Inventrix | July 17, 2009

One thing that I find absolutely fascinating is going back and looking at how my interests, preferences, tastes etc. have developed through/since my childhood – particularly now that it’s basically stabilized and probably won’t change too much in the future. The most fascinating one to trace is, in my opinion, my interest (by some [...]

Good Book: ‘Matilda’ by Roald Dahl

Inventrix | July 17, 2009

Have I read it recently? Halfway
As a quick note, I just want to say that this new cover (visible to the left) is absolutely hideous. Mine looks like this one, and is in my opinion vastly superior a design. I mean, what is with that hideous pink? Blech!
Anyway. I normally try [...]

Good Book: ‘Her Majesty’s Wizard’ by Christopher Stasheff

Inventrix | July 8, 2009

Have I read it recently? Sort of
This book has one of the best (in my opinion, of course) alternate world premises I’ve read so far. It’s quite clever and unique. On the flip side, this does have one characteristic which may put off a lot of you… I’m going to present the [...]

Temporal Anthropologist Tuesday, a.k.a. #TemporalTues

Inventrix | July 7, 2009

Below you will find an archive of my logged observations of my visit to the Great Exhibition in London, 1851, at the Crystal Palace.
Timestamps are the relative time in US Eastern that the messages appeared in my native timestream.
Temporal Anthropologist Tuesday is the brainchild of Dr. Wendell Howe, Temporal Anthropologist.
9:06 – Aand it’s #TemporalTues day! [...]

For lack of a Good Book

Inventrix | July 1, 2009

I couldn’t come up with a book review for today, so I decided to run a rough editing job over an excerpt of my current manuscript project and let you all read it.
But first, a few disclaimers.

This is a rough edit of the first draft. As a result, the final result may end up [...]