Eckard Smuts

“Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

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Journal Entries

A Writing Retreat in Betty's Bay
2025-07-06

Two weeks ago, I went on a writing retreat in Betty’s Bay with a group of my colleagues from the Stellenbosch English Department. The house we stayed in had a spacious, wood-beamed sunroom ...
Reading Notes: Ministry for the Future
2024-04-23

Kim Stanley Robinson's hard sci-fi climate novel The Ministry for the Future is part of an Honours course I teach on utopian literature. When I first read the book, I made a brief note for each of its 106 (!) short chapters ...