Mark Sebring on AuthorsDen

My AuthorsDen website contains a collection of songs, poems,
short stories, and essays I have written over the past 50 years.

If you would like to read the strange things I've written, go here:

That's one of my favorites too.

It's difficult to pick one favorite,
but mine's probably "Stranger In A Strange Land".

I am hoping for a Rams/Broncos Superbowl.
The Rams are one of my most favorite teams,
and the Broncos are my grandson's favorite.

A few of my favorites that I read this year:
"Rite Of Passage" - Panshin
"The Left Hand Of Darkness" - Le Guin
"Ringworld" - Niven
"A Time Of Changes" - Silverberg
"The Gods Themselves" - Asimov

I can't think of any particular theme I prefer.
I have mostly been reading early 1970s sci-fi lately
(I tend to read from chronological lists),
though I also re-read some of H.G. Wells classics.

I don't have one either, and I don't want one.

My "Blue Moon Sort Of Night" poem was slightly influenced
by "The Long And Winding Road", which it mentions:

I had a bedroom in the basement
back in 1974,
a stereo beside a cluttered desk,
a stack of records on the floor.

I sat and listened to sad stories,
The Beatles "Long And Winding Road".
...

Asimov's novel "The Gods Themselves" addressed the problem of communication.

And the Star Trek TNG episode "Darmok" immediately comes to mind. It kind of made up for the original series which was one where the entire universe spoke English.

I liked "Arrival" a lot, and one of the things I liked best about is it was realistic about language being the first problem we have to deal with when we make contact with an alien species.
In many early science fiction movies and television programs, everyone in the universe speaks English.