Diary (December 10, 2015)

Online diary of Karl Jones for Tuesday December 10, 2015.

Diary

Robert Silverberg

Robert Silverberg is one of the greats. I adore his work, fiction and nonfiction alike.

His Empires in the Dust: Ancient Civilizations Brought to Light (1963) has been inevitably outdated by the ongoing processes of scholarship – and yet it holds up as a good read.

• Comment @ Boing Boing

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Karl Jones (nonfiction)