A while back I came across a list of movies, books and other entertainment items on the International Space Station. I forwarded that list to Baen Books, as I noticed that a good chunk of the titles involved were from that publisher.

Somewhat jokingly I suggested that, in the spirit of their programs to give free books to members of the military and free books to disabled readers, they ought to give free books to the crew of the ISS.

Gee...maybe I should have suggested they give me a book contract. Because it appears they listened to me!

(I can't complain. They get free books, and I got a free Baen Books apron and a bunch of bookmarks and a sheet of autographed bookplates!)

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...Did anybody feel the need to remake The Andromeda Strain? I'll watch it from end to end later, but the ten or so minutes I saw were...uninspiring...

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Some nifty t-shirts for those who live in the the future (depicted in the past).

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It seems that during periods of stress, some folks turn to comfort foods. Or to cigarettes. Or to drink.

Me, I tend to turn back to music and certain authors. Clifford D. Simak and Spider Robinson, among others, have helped me through previous periods of stress. And this seems to be shaping up to be a spring of stress, and no doubt will also be a summer of stress.

So, it is back to the bar. Back to Callahan's Place and Lady Sally's Place and Mary's Place and The Place. more...

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The ever astounding Ansible is up. Number 250 in the series.

AS OTHERS RESEARCH US. From a positive article on sf (and Ken MacLeod) at the Glasgow Science Festival: 'The whole basis of the internet was famously inspired by William Gibson's book Neuromancer and Isaac Asimov, who recently died, "invented" earth-orbiting satellites in one of his tales.' (Jasper Hamill, Sunday Herald, April) [KM]

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Fred's Reading Report (April 200

O.K., it's that time of the month again!

Eighteen books YTD! 187 short works!

Which is to say...there's good news and there's bad news. For short works, if the goal is one short a day, I needed to be at 121 stories by the end of April. So, I've exceeded that goal. For long form, 18 books is better than one book a month for a year, so I'm way ahead of 99.99% of the people I know (many barely manage a book a year, for all love). more...

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