Promotional note before the essay: A reminder that my short story “Xu Ming’s Second Time Down” is now available! It’s the third in the Retcon series, although like all the stories in that sequence it is also designed to work on its own. If you haven’t already, please check it out! You can purchase it (and the others) as ebooks at
On the Universality of the Human Experience
On the Universality of the Human Experience
On the Universality of the Human Experience
Promotional note before the essay: A reminder that my short story “Xu Ming’s Second Time Down” is now available! It’s the third in the Retcon series, although like all the stories in that sequence it is also designed to work on its own. If you haven’t already, please check it out! You can purchase it (and the others) as ebooks at