Frederick Westing I suspect most writers like me live and die with Google. I’ve come to depend on its online search capabilities more than I should, but I have to say its reach — even for arcane railroad information — often seems like a miracle. Until it isn’t. Case in point: Last week my editor, […]
Via: The Things Courteney Cox had a sneaky way of writing her lines down on the set of Friends that nobody knew about. While some celebrities are able to memorize pages of dialogue, nailing every word in one take, other stars have a little more trouble remembering the lines they’re supposed to say . Some […]
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Machine That Won the War’ is a 1961 short story by the science-fiction author Isaac Asimov (1920-92). The story is set shortly after Earth and its associated worlds have won a war against an enemy civilisation known as the Denebians. A vast computer named Multivac is credited with […]
