Pamela Sund
@SundPamela
Writer, Artist, Believer
If you read one novel in 2025, it must be this: "Multi-award-winning author Ewan Morrison’s 9th book is a gripping, high-stakes, high concept thriller, which fuses futurism with a powerful emotional core. Emma is a Silicon Valley prodigy who dies in a secret AI brain chip…
Everything is destined to disappear as a reality and reappear as a simulation.
I've had enough; Fargo used to be a predictably safe city; this shooting happened about 3 blocks from my home. I don't recognize the once safe, family and community friendly place I returned to after many years away. What in the hell is happening to our cities and to our entire…
All Utopias fail, H.G Wells finally claimed, after a lifetime of trying to design one - because they are static. They always have to stick to one single master plan. They become rigid, authoritarian & destroy those who do not fit the plan. The tech utopia is no different
I am deeply saddened by the news of Jane’s death. I never met her, but she was a boisterous, provocative, funny online penpal, and, most importantly, a poet of rare lyric grace. It was an honor to publish the poem below earlier this summer.
Some lit journals pay nothing. Today, appreciatively, I received a modest check from @utulsa for this poem, which appeared in @NimrodJournal last month. Editor-in-chief @BorisDralyuk and his excellent young staff put out a first-class journal that respects the folks it publishes.
My recent article on AI slop is now no longer behind the Scotsman paywall and is free for all to see. Cheers. Link: scotsman.com/future-scotlan…
As Much As You Can And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it by too much contact with the world, by too much activity and talk. Try not to degrade it by dragging it along, taking it around and exposing it so often to…
Reading in the Shadows theimaginativeconservative.org/2025/07/readin…
If we ask questions of God, does he listen, and will he answer? Tune in and find out. Here is one woman's experience with the responsive voice of our Creator: inforum.com/lifestyle/salo…
We live in a post rational world. Truth is the poor sister who sits in the corner and weeps.
Anyone have a dining room table that looks something like this?
Americans no longer have a shared culture. Half of the people haven’t been in country for long so there is no shared history. Many groups just speak their national language. Even religion is no longer a binding factor. Never in history has such a dumb experiment been conducted.
My magnum opus has arrived. Magnum as in 1249 pages, 800 illustrations, most in color, 75 maps, well over a hundred extracts from primary sources, chronologies and lists of key terms. I wrote Volume 1, from the ancient Greeks to the Renaissance, and my oldest friend in academe,…
Review of my techno-thriller For Emma, by Vincenzo Barney, link below.
link to Vincenzo Barney's review of For Emma: substack.com/home/post/p-16…
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even--if you will-- eccentricity.“ Joseph Brodsky
“Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that... everything is the same, nothing is better. This is as barbaric and untruthful a doctrine as has yet emerged from the fertile mind of man.” Theodore Dalrymple