Gordon Bonnet

Gordon Bonnet

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Novelist; linguist; musician; astronomy, geology, & weather enthusiast; blogger; potter/sculptor; Doctor Who fanboy; dog lover. He/him, bi/queer and proud!

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/color-change

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comColor changeAbout a curious mineral from Greenland, and scientific curiosity in general

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/orbit-comp...

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comOrbit completionIn which I give everyone a few pieces of unsolicited advice

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/masks

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comMasksA short story

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/potions-101

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comPotions 101“Hocus-cadabra”

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/chaos-from...

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comChaos from orderYou can’t get around the Second Law of Thermodynamics

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/lost-benea...

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comLost beneath the wavesOn the curious legends of drowned realms

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comThe strange case of the talking mongooseEven stranger when you find out the story comes from the Isle of Man, which is not known for its mongooses

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/the-fluid-...

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comThe fluid EarthMaps show not only the present, but give clues about the past

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/beastly

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comBeastlyA strange, terrifying, and true tale from eighteenth-century France

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/resurrection

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comResurrectionThe strange phenomenon of “Lazarus taxa”

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/the-fine-p...

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comThe fine printA ghostly legend out of Cambridge that amounts to “shoulda read the contract more carefully”

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comMeasure for measureOn the human penchant for quantifying everything

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/the-polymath

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comThe polymathThe story of a man who was good at everything

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/good-friends

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comGood friendsWhy “straightwashing” is as damaging as outright homophobia

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/timestamp

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comTimestampA short story

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/anatomy-of...

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comAnatomy of a DNFIn which we look at three of my least-favorite tropes

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/creatures-...

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comCreatures from the alongsideIn which we look at a few fanciful denizens of our imagination

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/the-web-of...

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comThe web of contingenciesWhat would happen if we changed one small piece of history?

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/tracking-t...

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comTracking the hailstonesIn which we consider one of the most baffling unsolved problems in mathematics

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/the-lady-i...

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comThe lady in redIn which we consider a (very) modern religion

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/the-sevent...

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comThe Seventh Carda short story

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comBred in the boneYou can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your relatives

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/a-twist-in...

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comA twist in the clothAlso known as “Einstein wins again”

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comThe demons of DudleytownA tale of exaggerations, embellishments, and outright lies

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comWord associationThere’s an odd claim circulating social media these days.

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/the-bellri...

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comThe bellringerA puzzling earthquake, and how one man tried to cash in on the mystery

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/in-with-th...

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comIn with the badIs there any such thing as “objectively bad art”?

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/once-bitten

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comOnce BittenA short story about... a were-mutt?

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/ssssh-its-...

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comSsssh, it’s a secretSo secret, in fact, that I’m posting it online

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comThe sound of gunsA local mystery turns out to be much more widespread

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comIsland of the dollsWhere you can meet the uncanny valley face-to-face

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/the-attrac...

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comThe attraction of the terrifyingWhy are so many of us captivated by scary stories?

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/ill-starred

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comIll-starredYou think you’ve had bad luck? Consider this poor guy

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comVanished into the triangleA strange unsolved mystery from Vermont

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comHitching a Ridea short story

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comA beautiful hellscapeHumanity got its start not far from a very, very dangerous place

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/mudslinging

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comMudslingingA recent conspiracy theory with a very ugly side

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comThe ghost of GreyfriarsWhy “I saw it with my own eyes” isn’t enough

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comEscaping the bottleIf we’re in a simulation, could we find evidence? And... maybe... hack our way out of it?

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/the-lake-o...

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comThe lake of bonesA site in India with a very peculiar history

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/summers-end

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comSummer’s Enda short story

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comTrying to escapeWhy leaving the real world at times might be an actual necessity

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comUnfortunate eventsScience brought to bear on one of the most mysterious times in European history

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/curse-to-c...

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comCurse to cureDid opening a Polish king’s tomb trigger some kind of supernatural vengeance?

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/moon-madness

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comMoon madnessOnce a lie gets into circulation, it’s almost impossible to stop

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/mad-world

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comMad worldThe strange story of a beautiful flower with toxic nectar

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/relocating...

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comRelocating PergamumIn which we look at the latest conspiracy theory

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comBaby Bear’s universeOn the possibility of “fine tuning”

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gordonbonnetauthor.substack.com/p/hands-up

gordonbonnetauthor.substack.comHands upWhen a meteorite strike caused an uproar