One Jump Ahead; Mark L. Van Name (Baen Books, ISBN 978-1-4165-2085-6, June 2007. Cover art by Stephen Hickman.)

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Boundary; Eric Flint and Ryk E. Spoor (Baen Books, ISBN 1-4165-0932-1, March 2006. Cover art by Kurt Miller).

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Russian Amerika; Stoney Compton (Baen Books, ISBN 1-4165-2116, April 2007. Cover art by Kurt Miller).

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Science fiction author's Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle are featured in this article that recently appeared in The Washington Post. Fans of The Mote in God's Eye might want to note that they are correcting the book, one copy at a time. Fans of Robert A. Heinlein might want to look to their book Footfall for an appearance by that author as a character in the book! more...

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Jack Williamson's classic Legion of Space novel features Barnard's Runaway Star and the evil Medusae who inhabit that system invading Earth. John W. Campbell Jr.'s The Black Star Passes also features a invading star. E.E. "Doc" Smith did both one better and had the planets in two galaxies form when those two galaxies "collided".

Here's a star (for real) that's being flung from our galaxy at over 1.5 million miles per hour.

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The problem with a lot of military-oriented fiction (science fiction, technothrillers, mystery novels, etc.) is that it is written by people who have no experience in the military and are too lazy to do the basic research. (This is especially true of television!)

Luckily, there are some ways of correcting this!

(With thanks to Winchell Chung for passing this and many other interesting odds and ends along!)

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Re-read this one because I was trying to do an essay on Delany (still trying!). As good the second time around as it was the first.

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I missed the Star Wars hoopla due to family and work commitments. However, I did run across a site where you can download a 400-page eBook looking at the making of the films (with updates not included in the book on the main site). Everything you wanted to know about the inner George Lucas but were afraid to ask!

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I stopped in at Barnes & Nobles on December 21 to buy gift cards for various school-associated people (it's amazing how many people are involved in the education of one six-year-old girl!). While there, I purchased my usual "quad espresso". Then I perused the racks, and ended up buying something that will curtail the "quads" for the next seven visits. more...

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