The life of J. Robert Oppenheimer accelerated through 600 tweets.
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[For some final words on this project, see bit.ly/13uhSCW. Thanks to all those who've shown support; lots of you are quoted here!].
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Do you like stories about time-travel / timelines / parallel worlds, and other such things that make your head hurt in a good way? You might be interested in my latest, 'One Machine, One Message', which I'm very proud to see published in the awesome @ASIMtweets.
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I'd just dropped my daughter off at nursery for her first afternoon - so already feeling pretty emotional - when I read I'd won this award. Mega chuffed, especially since the other stories in the anthology ('Houses Borders Ghosts') are so good. Check them out!
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New short story: 'The Library of Gromma'. What lengths would you go to in order to preserve your memories? Published by the wonderful @AfterDinnerCon amazon.com/Library-Gromma-Af…
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War has not touched Dresden! The Florence on the Elbe, they call it. It’s the fanciest city I’ve ever seen. Our lodgings: a nice new cement-block hog barn. There were 150 pigs here, and now 150 infantry prisoners. (1945, age 22)
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Listen: tomorrow @VonnegutTweets will start tweeting the entire life of Kurt Vonnegut. Please spread this news widely, so that as many fans of Kurt Vonnegut, fans of sci-fi, and fans of "serious"-literature-mistaken-for-sci-fi can come along for the ride. Connect the karass.
To follow the life of Philip K Dick, accelerated through 600 tweets (a bit like me): @DoAndroidsTweet. Starting now!
Have been in bed for three days. My old friend Francis is with me. Soon, I know, I will want to die. (1966, aged 62)
My cancer is spreading and I feel so bad. My doctors have given me up. I have no confidence at all of enjoying good health in the future.
Feeling better and traveling again. Moving house and donating my hideously incomplete archive to the Library of Congress. (1966, aged 62)
... But I feel so tired, and often all I want is for him to hold my hand in silence. (1966, aged 61)
In hospital. Radiation treatment. Dyson visits to try to keep my interest alive in physics & pretend that I’m needed...
They revealed errors common to the very form of that culture. The errors relativity has corrected are *physicists’* errors. (1965, aged 61)
Why did the great achievements of Copernicus, Galileo & Newton have such a large cultural impact, compared to those of Einstein, Bohr etc?
The life of the scientist is, along with the life of the poet, soldier & artist, deeply relevant to man’s understanding of his situation.
... The pride of thinking we knew what was good for man. Yes, it has left a mark on many of us who were responsibly engaged.(1965, aged 61)
It is asked again, do I have a bad conscience? When I said the physicist had known sin I meant the sin of pride...