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Ansible 240 is up! Rejoice! Laugh! Cry! Scream in delight!

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"When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere."

—Lazarus Long in Time Enough for Love and The Notebooks of Lazarus Long.

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It is with sadness that I pass word that Fred Saberhagen died on Friday, June 29, 2007, after a long illness.

He had a long and distinguished career in the fields of science fiction, fantasy and horror. He wrote tales of Dracula and Sherlock Holmes.

He was probably best identified, for me, with the tales of the Berserkers, implacable alien machines bent on destroying organic life (including us).

Wikipedia entry and official site.

Addendum: The family will announce a date for a Memorial Celebration later this year. In lieu of flowers donations would be appreciated to any of the following: Doctors without Borders, Catholic Relief Services, SFWA Emergency Medical Fund, or John XXIII Catholic Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico. If you would like to send an email message to the family please use the link to contact me, and I will pass your words on. more...

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In conjunction with the Robert A. Heinlein Centennial, Dwayne A. Day (writing at The Space Review) provides us with an excellent look at the relationship between Heinlein and the U.S. space program.

Particularly of interest is a memo that Heinlein wrote in 1945. Has history overlooked a piece of writing as important as the letter Einstein wrote to Roosevelt regarding the creation of the atomic bomb? more...

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Locus Online is reporting that SF author Sterling E. Lanier died on June 28, 2007. He is best know to me as the author of a pair of post-Apocalyptic novels, Hiero's Journey and The Unforsaken Hiero.

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Found this at this site.

Title: E. E.
Lyric: Duane Elms, © 08/03/83
Tune: Henry, © New Riders of the Purple Sage

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There was a man we all grew up with, each in our own way.
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E.E. Smith wrote stories where the hero saved the day.
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Space opera was a fantasy that we all understood,
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And E.E. wrote the lines the way that only E.E. could.
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Worlds grow old and suns grow cold
And death we never can doubt.
Time's cold wind, wailing down the past,
Reminds us that all flesh is grass
And history's lamps blow out. more...

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We're off to outer space
We're leaving Mother Earth
To save the human race
Our Star Blazers more...

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I've lost the attribution to this one sorry...

How many Betans does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

(all together now) "They don't screw in lightbulbs! They screw in the Orb!"

(...rimshot...) more...

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"You wouldn't feel at home in anything that didn't have a navigational system and a lot of nasty firepower, Ilia."

"'Sounds like a reasonable definition of common sense to me."

Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space

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"You see, some people have an evil twin. I am not so lucky. What I have is an idiot twin."

Miles Vorkosogian (as written by Lois McMaster Bujold)

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"You have one hundred and forty kilos of antimatter sitting around on my planet????"

"I thought it would come in handy,'" the doctor said lamely.

(General Horner and Dr. Castanuelo, in Hell's Faire by John Ringo)

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"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion...I watched C-beams glittering in the dark at Tannhauser Gate...All those moments will be lost...in time...like...tears...in rain. Time to die."

"Roy Batty", Replicant (Rutger Hauer), Blade Runner more...

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