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Uncanny Valley Theater: Rossum’s Universal Robots

Posted on 10 November 2023 by Suhail Rafidi

Last night’s performance of Rossum’s Universal Robots was the Tin Man’s heart! Some executive nerds of our Science Fiction Reading Group snagged front row seats at San Francisco’s imaginative and intimate Cutting Ball Theater (277 Taylor St. 94102) for a … Continue reading →

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San Francisco Writer’s Conference 2023

Posted on 24 February 2023 by Suhail Rafidi

The glass elevator lofts me above the cavernous Atrium to the top floor. The giant fountain dominating the lobby shrinks into knick-knack proportions beneath my flight. The elevator dings and announces, “Seventeenth floor.” So what, the Hyatt Regency is not … Continue reading →

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Uncanny Valley Digest: Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler

Posted on 28 August 2020 by Suhail Rafidi

Our Octavia Butler discussion gleamed like a beetle’s carapace! Potent imagery and penetrating themes abound in this thought-provoking, and creepy, short story. A human child living in a human preserve on an alien planet is about to come of age. … Continue reading →

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