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...most influential careers in the genre. Clarke began his career in the 1930s penning short stories for magazines. Even after being confined to a wheelchair due to post-polio syndrome, the prolific author continued to write. His final novel, “The Last Theorem,” was completed just days before his death...
Frederik G. Pohl, co-author of “The Last Theorem,” met Clarke in 1950. The two science fiction writers remained friends and collaborators until Clarke’s death. “When we were writing ‘The Last Theorem,’ [Clarke] was ill, and progressively more so,” Pohl says. “But it was a pleasure anyway...
...Dead--his absurdist riff on a pair of minor characters in Hamlet--Stoppard has become almost a genre unto himself, taking intellectual, often abstruse subject matter and turning it into challenging yet playful drama. His game, frequently, is the oddball juxtaposition: moral philosophy and gymnastics (Jumpers); Fermat's last theorem and Byron's love poetry (Arcadia); James Joyce and Vladimir Lenin (Travesties). "Tom said to me once that he decides on one play, and then shortly after decides on a different one," says Trevor Nunn, director of Rock 'n' Roll and several other Stoppard plays. "And then he lets them...
...Island is not Purgatory,” he said in response to a wildly popular theory among viewers. “I keep telling people it’s not, but they don’t seem to believe me. People try to assume there is one central theorem but it’s not that simple.”“Simple” is not a word that could be used to describe “Lost.” “There was an overarching mythology that existed before the series started...
...logarithms, Schneider replaced the standard twelve-tone octave with a new set of frequencies. According to Schneider, “music theory in this scale has not yet been worked out.” The results are two 30-40 second songs enticingly called “Non-Pythagorean Theorem Compositions.” As far as I can tell, these tracks (as well as the other eight sub-minute songs on the album) sound basically like a five year old stepping on a Casio keyboard. The band’s website claims that these sounds were made using...