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Jul.28.2010 - 10:52 am
My Earliest Memory
Murray Shapiro was the son of Jewish immigrants from the Ukraine who owned a grocery store in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Eleanor Roosevelt was a regular customer in my grandfather’s...
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Jun.03.2010 - 1:05 am
Data as Sherlock Holmes: Ship in a Bottle
Four years later, in Ship in a Bottle, Moriarty makes a second attempt to "get off the Holodeck." After making his miraculous exit from the VR system through sheer will...
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Jun.02.2010 - 12:43 pm
Data as Sherlock Holmes: Elementary, Dear Data
Diagnostics engineer Lt. Reginald Barclay, played by Dwight Schultz, is investigating a matrix diode spatial orientation systems bug in Sherlock Holmes Holo-program 3A when he...
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Mar.20.2010 - 2:45 pm
Desperate Living: John Waters' Science Fiction Dystopia
 Desperate Living: John Waters' Science Fiction Dystopia  Alan N. Shapiro  Maybe it was the mono sound of my budget-priced video recorder, which the salesperson at Saturn Hansa...
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Jul.16.2009 - 1:45 am
In response to: The Weirdness We Are Taught
Star Trek "satires"
Galaxy Quest is a great film. There is another film of the same genre, equally funny and interesting, that was made in...

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Short Story: Beginner's Luck: A Casino Gambling Story
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About Alan

I studied mathematics/science at MIT and government/history/literature at Cornell. I have published the book "Star Trek: Technologies of Disappearance" and my second book "Betting on Longshots" is currently being read by two editors at my...
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