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Discussion of written science fiction and fantasy.
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Linguistic obliviousness: "Wan" == "Juan"
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Was I supposed to realize that "Wan" in Pohl's _Beyond the Blue Event Horizon_ was really named Juan? I didn't get it when I first read the book years'n'years ago, and still didn't get it when reread it recently. Only when it was made explicit in _Heechee Rendezvous_, which I just read for the first time, did I understand.... more »
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Inherit the Earth by Brian Stableford
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This was part of an experiment to see if the ongoing mopification in SF made older works I didn't care for at the time look better in retro- spect. Short answer - no. Long answer - this would fit in with today's SF if you just fixed the information technology details (ON the other hand, isn't it weird that Stableford doesn't see how better computers... more »
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Stephen Hawking's Junk Science Atheism
 
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[link] Stephen Hawking's Junk Science Atheism Life Site News ^ | September 7, 2010 | Matthew Cullinan Hoffman Posted on 08 September 2010 01:43:19 by NYer MEXICO CITY, September 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - World-famous physics professor Stephen Hawking is making waves and headlines by... more »
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How to Build A Robot Army by Daniel Wilson
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Subtitled " tips on defending the planet Earth against alien invaders, ninjas, and zombies" Switches seamlessy between quite factual information about the state and future of robots to jokes about how Mecha-Godzilla is just a bad idea. I hope his previous book contains the suggestions for how to use robots against rebel robots. Otherwise it's a bit of an... more »
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Brust's Dragaera came out of an RPG, anything else nearly as good?
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Without question, Brust's milieu for two important series of books comes from Robert Sloan's early D&D campaign. Steven has acknowledge this several times. According to Sloan, each of them worked on fiction using mutated versions of the original campaign setting. I have two questions: Did any fiction by Sloan ever surface. I have Googled some fiction... more »
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The Discovery Terrorist Attacker Was A True Green Believer
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[link] The Discovery Attacker: A True Green Believer By Richard Morrison on 9.2.10 @ 6:09AM News Wednesday afternoon that an armed gunman had entered the cable TV headquarters of Discovery Communications in Silver Spring, Maryland and begun taking hostages alarmed people throughout the Washington,... more »
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Eureka 8/27/2010 Spoilers
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...1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 "Last night's episode that had the return of Stark, there was a line from > > Jamie Callis about who he was thinking of during an event in the story. > > He replied with words to the effect of : a blonde in a slinky red dress." Trevor Grant's new friends appear to be pacifist scientists concerned... more »
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