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Refugees, Language, and the Meaning of ‘America’

May 22, 2022Nalin 1 Comment

I recently had the wonderful opportunity to hear Pulitzer Prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen speak at the College of William and Mary for the 2022 McSwain-Walker Lecture. His talk was entitled “Refugees, Language, and the Meaning of ‘America’“. Nguyen… Continue Reading →

Personal throughline, identity, sympathizer, pulitzer, nguyen, rassam's eye, immigrant, refugee, america

Sci-Fi Story Elements That Really Hook Me!

May 5, 2018Nalin 2 Comments

For well over a year now, I’ve been spinning my wheels on a sequel to Red Soil Through Our Fingers. Despite the well-known writing advice that the first draft will be crap and you just have to power through it,… Continue Reading →

SFF Genre, My Stories, Writing hard sf, fantasy, elemental genre, literary fiction, characters, futurism, science fiction, identity, space opera, plot, ideas

Language Is…

January 28, 2015Nalin 1 Comment

Language is a technology, a doorway, a weapon, and an agent of change and hope. As it shifts both form and function, the metaphors that describe it change too. Language is a technology that has shaped our brains. Ted Chiang’s… Continue Reading →

My Stories, Science and Society liberation, identity, aave, sff, social justice, language, colonialism
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