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Science Fiction and Fantasy in TV, Movies, Books, etc.
I don’t game all the time, though you wouldn’t know it from this blog. I also enjoy reading, dinking around with 3D renders, playing real instruments (gotta keep my pennywhistle skills up should I find an Irish band without one), writing fiction…. Anyway. I planned awhile back to try and branch out to perhaps other … Read more
Way back in the 70s, Vernor Vinge wrote a short story called “True Names” which is about a bunch of people who hang out in a virtual world, talk, hack, have fun… until some of them start dying, one or more of them may not be human at all, and the only way to find … Read more
Countdown for blast-off. X Minus 5, 4, 3, 2, X Minus 1, Fire. From the far horizons of the unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions in time and space. These are stories of the future. Adventures in which you will live in a million could-be years on a thousand maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting … Read more
There are always those who ask, what is it all about? For those who need to ask, and for those who need points sharply made, who need to know “where it’s at,” this: – from “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman, Harlan Ellison Ellison leads into an excerpt from Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience, which ends: A very … Read more
Whilst playing EvE Online today, it occurred to me that SF book authors are missing a real savings, book-cover wise, by not just finding a good screenshot in EvE and using that for their cover… Why, if more people did that, we could have books like… hmm… There’s a big seller for ya. Who wouldn’t … Read more