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A profile of author Alex Irvine.

"What gets me about science fiction and all genre literature," he said in a recent coffee shop interview, "is that nobody has to work for a living. That drives me nuts...I want to write stories about people who work for a living."

Hmmm...I guess he hasn't read Allen Steele, Travis Taylor, Alastair Reynolds, Kim Stanley Robinson, Ben Bova, Robert A. Heinlein, Fred Pohl, Arthur C. Clarke, Tim Powers, Neil Gaiman, C.M. Kornbluth, William Gibson, Michael Flynn, Samuel R. Delany, Joe Haldeman and many others. They all have written stories about people who work for a living. Granted, their jobs might not be what we do here and now, but you'll find plenty of "grunts" in the tales of these and others.

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Here's a great site that gives you interactive maps of several Roman catacombs (despite the warning labels, the site works with Mozilla Firefox, at least for me). Ah, underground tombs...many an hour in my misbegotten youth was spent robbing tombs...on Tekumel, not in our sphere of reality!)

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...are maybe better left forgotten. Presenting Star Maidens! I actually caught a few episodes of this on US television way back when.

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Continuing his Heinlein Centennial-related articles, Dwayne A. Day (writing at The Space Review) looks at Project Moonbase. An ultra-low-budget effort, it was essentially an expanded television show. The amount of involvement that Heinlein had has been debated over the years, but you can see many of his touches: the shuttle rockets, an atom-bomb armed space station, and more.

It's cheap, it's pulp, it's black-and-white, but like Creation of the Humanoids, it has it's moments. Get it on DVD!

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The kind folks at SF Signal have "tagged" me, so I'm being forced to think this morning. Don't worry, I'll carefully spread the wealth further...

1. One book that changed your life?

The World, The Flesh and The Devil by J.D. Bernal. more...

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Over at SF Signal, the management threw down the challenge to name three books that you've read and liked and that others probably have missed. Given my collection, I had many choices. As with many of these "meme"-like challenges, the problem was not so much finding choices but restricting them. Here are my choices. I figured that if I took the time to construct the comment there, I ought to be able to use it as a posting here! more...

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I've got a fair number of non-fiction books. Up to now, I've shelved them purely in alphabetical fashion (last name of the author). Recently I started pulling out books on observational astronomy, because I might be out observing in the backyard and come in to pull a book down off the shelves. It made it easier to group all the observing books together.

If certain things come to fruition, then I'll need a better way of shelving my other non-fiction books. Shelving solely by alphabetical fashion means that books on a certain subject might be hidden (out of sight, out of mind). So I'm thinking of adopting the Dewey Decimal system or something equivalent. Anybody out there do anything similar?

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A very good article about a series of "boy's books" that I read during my misbegotten youth. I visit the series now and again.

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Jane Galt wonders if Hollywood will be able to make Atlas Shrugged.

Hmmmm...hot Objectivist nude scenes...hmmmm...

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A new book that might help me get over my O'Brian deprivation (when I finish my current re-read of his works).

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