Well, not quite. But here are a ton of links about one of the funniest SF (well, mostly)-related shows out there! MST3k! Everybody sing! more...

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So is William Gibson becoming the new Edward Whittemore? This description of his upcoming novel, Spook Country, via BoingBoing sure sounds like he is mining the same territory. more...

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Jay Lake's Mainspring is on the ever-tottering Mount Toberead. Over at SF Signal (their review here), they link to a posting by David Levine. I think I've found Project Rho's (see the Atomic Rockets sub-site) missing twin!

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Yet another sign of the End Times. The return of John Norman's "classic" series. more...

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Reading Mark Kelly's comments from a preview, as well as Gary Westfahl's in-depth Locus Online review makes me wish that all cinema types would do two things.

First, they should refrain from being influenced by 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Second, they should read some science fiction. And some science. Lots of science.

Sigh. Some of the reviews I've read have been absolutely gushing. But like those folks who have "discovered" the remade Battlestar Galactica and gush how it really isn't science fiction, they just show their ignorance of the genre.

Given the comments in the two links, I'll pass. Time for another good book instead and I'll avoid stale popcorn and flat soda as well!

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The Heinlein Society is holding a short story contest for the best tale to reflect the philosophy and spirit of Robert A. Heinlein. It's open to both professional and amateur writers and first prize is $5,000.00, considerably more than Heinlein himself would have won if he had sent his first tale into a contest, rather than submitting it to Astounding Stories. You have a year, so start writing!

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Wikipedia casts its net further and further. Here is an entry about one of my favorite "Golden Age" science fiction series.

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H. Beam Piper. The Terro-Human Future History. The Fuzzies. The Paratime Police. Well, Williamsport (Pennsylvania) may have forgotten him (and the local paper has forgotten that if you put up a link, it ought to stay up!), and that's probably why this profile is so late in coming. I wish that somebody reprint these (maybe Baen in their classic SF line or one of the small houses). more...

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The reivew can now be seen here.

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Sort of. When he died in 2001, Gordon R. Dickson had been working on a continuation of his long-running Childe Cycle of novels called Antagonist. Looks like it has been finished off, but the co-author, David W. Wixon, is not a name that is familiar to me (but this brief entry at the Locus site suggests that he is well familiar with Dickson's work).

I wonder if Antagonist will be the first of a pair of novels, as some of Dickson's other later works were. From what I recall, the novel had been called Childe.

It would be wonderful if his notes could get published. The original plan for the cycle was to be several historical novels, several contemporary novels and several future history novels. The way the cycle worked out was a number of future history novels greater than the original plan. I'd like to see whatever exists for the historical and contemporary novels, to see what the grand vision would have been.

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The review can now be found here.

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An online version of Terry Bisson's classic tale. I had seen (earlier this year) an online short film, but that seems to have gone poof.

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And speaking of Schrodinger's Cat (yes, I was speaking of Schrodinger's Cat), here's a list of popular references to that famous abused kitty. I've seen a few of these references, only a few!

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The review can now be found here.

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(I haven't re-posted any of the items I put up over the years from Ye Olde Blog on the passing of various personalities, but Jack Williamson was—and is—one of my favorite writers.)

I have just received word that famed science fiction writer Jack Williamson passed away. more...

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A retro-review of science fiction and fantasy from the 1980's. I still have the Bob Shaw volumes mentioned, but must admit that most of the other stuff passed me by.

Addendum: The view from the oughts. The 1990's retrospective. I'll keep watching for the 1970's retrospective.

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A retro-review of Arthur C. Clarke's classic work. Hopefully you are all aware of Clarke's foreshadowing of Ron Moore's method of re-imagining an earlier work: Clarke expanded/rewrote Against as The City and the Stars. He tells an amusing tale of a psychiatrist and a patient that were convinced that the other was crazy, as each had read one of the books and was not aware of the other.

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The review can now be found here.

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The review can now be found here.

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Two articles that recently surfaced on a Jack Vance discussion group that I belong to.

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