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Discussion of written science fiction and fantasy.
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What happened to the Forehand children ?
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The following contains minor spoilers on Pohl's "Gateway". On page 225 (of ISBN 978-1-85798-818-5) we learn that Willa Forehand has been posted dead because she has been out too long and their rations must have run out by now. On page 228 we are reminded that Lois Forehand is still out. On page 278 Louise Forehand has returned with a rich find to her waiting... more »
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_Peregrine: Primus_ and the Christian Empire
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I was kind of surprised recently, on finally picking up a used copy of the mass-market paperback in the US of Avram Davidson's _Peregrine: Primus_ (I've always been put off by the blurb), to find it fairly frank about the theocratic brutality of the Christian Empire that succeeded the Roman Empire-- "Halt, stranger! does the Holy Spirit proceed by or through the... more »
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Girl Genius 8.20.08
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Well. As we feared ..... we got trouble, right here in Mechanicsburg, with a capital T and that rhymes with P and that stands for ...Pot-shotting.... Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djhe...@kithrup.com
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on later asimov
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Given the recent talk of Asimov's Foundation universe hereabouts and a dearth of anything else jumping off the shelf insisting I read it, I am 80 or so pages into Forward the Foundation. Something occurred to me that seems at odds with how I see most writers progress. ISTM that early writers resort to 'action-hero' mode rather than a... more »
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YASID space opera courier and monks
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I'm blanking on the title of a book I read within the past year. 1. Humanity is spread over numerous planets, but the AI ships that keep the cohesive "empire" together are aging and failing. Humans have lost the ability to build new ones. This is due in part to technology being out of favor after brutal techo-dictatorships of the past.... more »
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Recently Read - August 2008
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Recently Read - August 2008 Castro, Adam-Troy, "Emissaries from the Dead" *** This first 'original novel'(?) is a good start to a series. Andrea Cort is an indentured worker for a star-spanning diplomatic corp. She's a criminal investigator for the DipCorp's Judge Advocate. And she's a monster, in both the opinion of society, and in her own.... more »
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YASID -- about 50 years old
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No later than 1960, in an anthology (maybe Conklin, maybe not), I read a story with people trying to figure out why disks and blobs were suddenly appearing, usually in mid-air, then moving around and changing shape before disappearing again. Our heroes finally figured out they were three-dimensional cross-sections of fourth-dimensional... more »
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CERN Black Hole Generator Online Soon
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(European Organization for Nuclear Research) Build Worlds Largest 17 Mile Round Particle Accelerator Planetary Risk To Create Artificial BIG BANG Conditions In Lab Many more helpful links, videos, interviews from all sides of the debate at end of post. [link] Citizens Against The Large Hadron Collider is a non-profit organization... more »
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