The life of J. Robert Oppenheimer accelerated through 600 tweets.
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10 Jun 2013
[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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30 Dec 2021
This from me, the creator of @OppieTweets
30 Dec 2021
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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19 Aug 2021
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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15 Oct 2020
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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14 Dec 2018
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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10 Nov 2018
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.
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8 Apr 2016
To follow the life of Philip K Dick, accelerated through 600 tweets (a bit like me): @DoAndroidsTweet. Starting now!
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9 Jun 2013
Listen. Don’t smoke. (J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1904-1966)
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9 Jun 2013
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)
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8 Jun 2013
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.
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8 Jun 2013
Feeling better and traveling again. Moving house and donating my hideously incomplete archive to the Library of Congress. (1966, aged 62)
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7 Jun 2013
... But I feel so tired, and often all I want is for him to hold my hand in silence. (1966, aged 61)
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7 Jun 2013
In hospital. Radiation treatment. Dyson visits to try to keep my interest alive in physics & pretend that I’m needed...
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7 Jun 2013
I look old & dying. What’s worse, I have been diagnosed with throat cancer. (1966, aged 61)
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6 Jun 2013
They revealed errors common to the very form of that culture. The errors relativity has corrected are *physicists’* errors. (1965, aged 61)
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6 Jun 2013
Why did the great achievements of Copernicus, Galileo & Newton have such a large cultural impact, compared to those of Einstein, Bohr etc?
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6 Jun 2013
The life of the scientist is, along with the life of the poet, soldier & artist, deeply relevant to man’s understanding of his situation.
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5 Jun 2013
... 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)
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5 Jun 2013
It is asked again, do I have a bad conscience? When I said the physicist had known sin I meant the sin of pride...
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