(2004 continues...)

Sands of Mars (Gnome Press, 1952) by Arthur C. Clarke.

The review can now be found here.

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(2004 continues...)

Prelude to Space (Ballantine, 1976) by Arthur C. Clarke.

The review can be found here.

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(2004 continues...)

The View from Serendip (Random House, 1977)

The review can now be found here.

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(The year still ends in "4"!)

Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! Collected Essays 1934-1998 (St. Martin's Press, 1999) by Arthur C. Clarke.

The review can now be found here.

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(Believe it or not...six days of entries to sift through before we move out of 2004!)

The review can now be found here.

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(2004...but it still feels like 2003!)

Enterprise Stardust/The Third Power; Scheer, K.H. & Ernsting, Walter (Ace, 1969)

(Yes, I read it in 2003. So sue me. I read it again.)

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(Still wandering through 2004.)

Alan Lee: Tolkien's World—Paintings of Middle-Earth (Fine Communications, 1992):

The review can now be found here.

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(2004 staggers to an end...)

Mark Whittington: Children of Apollo (Xlibris Corporation, 2001)

The review can now be found here.

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List can now be found here.

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(2004 winds up!)

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume I (edited by Robert Silverberg, Avon, 1971):

The review can now be found here.

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(04! 04! 004!)

Before there was Buzz Lightyear...there was Captain Future!

Here's a suggestion for Haffner Press. How about bringing back Captain Future? more...

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(2004 continues...)

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(A 2004 classic!)

The Illustrious Mr. Chung sent me this link to a site devoted to the wonderful YA series of SF novels published by the John C. Winston Company in the late 1950's and early 1960's. The artwork was wonderful, and many of the books are still fun to read today. more...

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(Another 2004 classic!)

NESFA Press, one of the best places around to find classic SF, is working on a book about E.E. "Doc" Smith. more...

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The Military Dimension and The Military Dimension Mark II; by David Drake (Baen Books. 07/91 for Mark I; 12/95 for Mark II. Cover artist John Rheaume for Mark I and Newell Covers and John Pierrard for Mark II. ISBN 0-671-72054-6 for Mark I and 0-671-87697-X for Mark II).

The review can now be found here.

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Future Weapons of War; edited by Joe Haldeman and Martin H. Greenberg (Baen Books, 03/07. Cover art by David Mattingly. ISBN 978-1-4165-2112-9.).

The review can now be found here.

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Here's a relatively mundane orbital shot of a "drowned mountain" and some rugged looking coasts. Mundane except for the fact that the water isn't water (it's most likely a combination of methane and ethane) and the planet isn't Earth, it is Saturn's largest moon, Titan.

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Stanley L. Miller, who helped to demonstrate that simple organic compounds could be formed from simple processes in the early Earth, has died. I did that experiment for my Chemistry II senior thesis in high school.

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