Yearly Archives: 2009

High Hopes for Boreama

Eric Priezkalns - January 23, 2009

US President Barack Obama was inaugurated this week. President of the USA is an unusual job. There are not many jobs where...

Making Work for Ourselves (Part Two)

Eric Priezkalns - January 17, 2009

In part one, I imagined a scenario where one hundred people, selected at random, are stranded on a desert island. They have no...

Making Work for Ourselves (Part One)

Eric Priezkalns - January 10, 2009

Suppose that you and ninety-nine other people are stranded on a desert island. You are lucky, in that the island has all the...

Going Around in Circles

Eric Priezkalns - January 3, 2009

It is a new year. What is so new about it? Anyone born before 2008 will have been here before, at least...

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This website showcases content created by Eric Priezkalns, who also uses the pen name Ray Blank when writing science fiction. It includes stories, essays, poems, short films and audio recordings.