Click World News (Free subscription) | yesterday
An anonymous reader writes "recombu.com has an article examining ten things mobile phones will make obsolete, including phone booths, wristwatches and handheld games consoles. It's interesting to see how many devices have been absorbed into mobile phone technology and it begs the question, are we better off having everything in one device? The author poignantly concludes that while it's great...
Scheiss Weekly (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Mamacita says: What’s that? STUPIDITY? How intensely politically incorrect! Gotta love something that’s politically incorrect! Well, I do, anyway. Euphemisms are for the weak. Euphemisms cheapen our language, and draw our attention away from important things. 1. Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe. — Albert [...]
Planet-x.com.au (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
In the 1940s, renowned science fiction writer Isaac Asimov began writing a trilogy of novels called the Foundation Series. Asimov's protagonist discovers and develops “psychohistory,” a mathematical science that statistically predicts ...
MilkandCookies.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Dr Asimov describes the three laws of robotics. First Law: A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Second Law: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. Third Law: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
[Interviewer's Note: This is a series of interviews featuring the contributors of The Apex Book of World SF edited by Lavie Tidhar. It'll run every Monday to Friday until I run out of interviews. Two of these interviews will be reprinted in Apex Magazine but the rest are exclusive to SF Signal.] Jamil Nasir has published short fiction in numerous science fiction venues in the US and UK, including...
Biology in Science Fiction (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Oh, give me a clone Of my own flesh and bone With its Y chromosome changed to X. And after it's grown, Then my own little clone Will be of the opposite sex. The Beam Me Up blog has posted "The Clone Song" , a ditty sung to the tune of Home on the Range, penned by Randall Garrett and Isaac Asimov . As the first verse above suggests, it's all about -er- self love. It actually reminds me a bit...
Beam Me Up - Science & Science Fiction news (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Have you ever see this? Its the Clone Song rumor has it that it was written by the good doctor himself. Found a copy....Wonder if John could voice this? lolThe Clone Song By: Isaac Asimov Tune: Home On The Range Oh, give me a clone Of my own flesh and bone With its Y chromosome changed to X. And after it's grown, Then my own little clone Will be of the opposite sex. Clone, clone of my own,
The Eternal Golden Braid (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
An Edge In His Voice Harlan Ellison; An Edge In My Voice (E-Reads Ltd.; 2008; cover by Leo and Diane Dillon). I wasn't expecting much out of this collection of Ellison's essays that originally appeared in the late Future Life magazine (sister, more serious sister when it started out, to Starlog ) before moving into other venues. After all, I figured that they probably had aged and I would be scratching...
'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?' (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
As I’ve mentioned in responding to comments on my post on Saturday, I share the view that the links between crime fiction and science fiction are very strong. A long list of the fine writers who have worked in both genres includes Isaac Asimov, John Sladek, Fredric Brown, and John Wyndham (though Wyndham seems to have given up on detective fiction once the Golden Age had passed.) I was reminded...
Oil Is Mastery (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
According to Poseidonius, one of the most careful and accurate observers and scholars in world history, the discovery of the atom predates Leucippus and Democritus and goes back to even before Trojan times. "The Sidonians, according to tradition, are skilled in many beautiful arts, as the poet [Homer] also points out; and besides this they are philosophers in the sciences of astronomy and arithmetic,...
Mad Hatter's Bookshelf & Book Review (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
This is a little late, but the news have been chafing me a bit. In a surprising move Isaac Asimov's estate has authorized a trilogy of new I, Robot Universe books. This is shocking because Asimov had plenty of time to add to that Universe if he so desired considering the last book in the series was written about a decade before he passed away and he was prolific till the end. Suffice it to say if he...
fairyhedgehog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
My story is emerging as a Diana Wynne-Jones/Isaac Asimov fan fiction mishmash. I'm amazed I haven't been approached by a major publisher yet but maybe I need to add a few ninjas first.
SciFi Scanner (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
It now looks very, very likely that the Black Cat will play a significant part in Spider-Man 4, and may be played by Rachel McAdams.
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Some good stuff in this issue, such as an awesome color ad for the Infocom Hitchhiker's Guide game (not pictured because Sumana has the camera) and a two-page spread for Telarium's game adaptations of SF classics . I got sidetracked talking about the ads, but there are a couple good stories here as well. The best one is "The White Box" by Rom Chilson and Lynette Meserole, which, like Qubit...
Locusts & Honey (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Kenny Pearce is developing a bibliography of works of science fiction that are particularly noteworthy for expressing a philosophical worldview or premise. He presents several categories, such as Mind, Solipsism, and Sex and Gender. Some of the stories that he lists are available online, like Isaac Asimov's " The Last Question " -- a confrontation with entropy. Kenny asks readers for suggestions....
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