The Age of the Possible
There, at the bottom of being, where the water that makes aaathis planet a world aaaaaais the color of spacetime the octopus— with her body-shaped mind and her Continue reading
Author Archives: William Ziebold
The Glowing Muse
One of my first assignments as a young reporter at the El Paso Times was to follow a couple of scorpion experts into the desert after dark. They strapped snake chaps Continue reading
Spectral Light
In the dead of night the human brain is most capable of distillation—of boiling things down to basic black and white. Smoke means fire. Breaking glass signals intrusion. From an evolutionary Continue reading
The Age of Avoidance
I don’t want this to be the thing. I hate feeling guilty about stuff. But the thing is, I’ve run the numbers, and I’m pretty sure this is the thing. Have Continue reading
Landscape, Change, and the Long Road Ahead
In Ursula K. Le Guin’s classic The Left Hand of Darkness, her main character, Genly Ai, lands on the remote planet called Gethen, also known as Winter. He comes bearing an Continue reading