Autopia (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
If Mad Max rode a bike, it would look like the solar-electric trike Australian tinkerer Joe Blake's spent 15 years building. It's just the thing for roaming the post-apocalyptic wastelands, even if Blake uses it for the more mundane task...
Big Dumb Object (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
Locus have posted an excerpt of their interview with Hugo and Nebula winning Michael Chabon. The more I read of his interviews, the more I like him, even though I haven't read a word of his books yet (this will...
Positive Liberty (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
I want to get a tattoo of myself on my entire body, only 2″ taller. — Steven Wright I found Isaac Asimov’s Foundation a lot less enjoyable the second time through. I’d read it I believe in 8th or 9th grade, and it was really a disappointment to come back to it. Oh well, [...]
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
A gallery of John Wyndham covers . Day of the Triffids ...great book...horrible movie. [via A Different Stripe ] Free Fiction: @ Dunesteef , a new audio fiction 'zine: " Enter Sandman " by Jeff Carlson. [via SFScope ] @No Fear of the Future: " Memory " by Jayme Lynn Blaschke. @ManyBooks.net: " The Dragon of Wantley " by Owen Wister (1892). [via QuasarDragon ] @The Inferior 4: "Larisa Miusov" by Lucius...
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
The best argument for science fiction's vitality is the stories in Gardner Dozois's current anthology "The Year's Best Science Fiction." There is no mistaking this stuff for mere fantasy.
Deep-Sea News (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...' Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992) Read the comments on this post...
bloglis zamanku (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Fakta bahwa orang beriman lebih bahagia daripada orang yang skeptis sama saja dengan fakta bahwa orang mabuk lebih bahagia daripada orang waras. Kebahagiaan dari keinginan beriman itu murahan dan berbahaya . - George Bernard Shaw Kutipan menarik lainnya terlampir. Silahkan dicermati dan dikritisi. salam, bhirawa_m penganut buddhisme --- On Tue, 8/26/08, Rahardini Widyasari wrote: From: Rahardini Widyasari...
CNN (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
It's billed as the oldest writers' conference in the nation, a gathering at a picturesque mountaintop retreat where literary giants, book editors and up-and-coming novelists have been coming together once a year since the 1920s.
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
From SFWA : Mary Jane Engh , author of Arslan and Wheel of the Winds among other works, will be honored as Author Emerita by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America for the 2009 Nebula Awards® Weekend in Los Angeles, California. The honor was announced by SFWA® President Russell Davis. The Nebula Awards Weekend will be held April 24-26 [2009] in Los Angeles, California, at the Luxe Hotel...
Reel Suave (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
Alex Proyas has directed for his adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s work now he is set to tackle Rober Heinlein’ novella The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag. It is story about a man who is not sure of his activities in the day and doesn’t know what he does for a living is getting increasingly disturbed. He tells this to a private detective who tries to find out what he is upto and it leads to a series...
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Filmmaker Alex Proyas has directed an adaptation of an Isaac Asimov story before, but now he's tackling sci-fi author Robert Heinlein. Proyas will write and direct an adaptation of Heinlein's novella "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" for Phoenix Pictures. The story centers on a man who becomes increasingly disturbed when he realizes he cannot account for his activities during the day or...
The Bayesian Heresy (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Shortly after 9/11, a Russian scientist named Dmitri Gusev proposed an explanation for the origin of the name Al Qaeda. He suggested that the terrorist organization took its name from Isaac Asimov’s famous 1950s science fiction novels known as the Foundation Trilogy . After all, he reasoned, the Arabic word “qaeda” means something like “base” or “foundation.” And the first novel in Asimov’s trilogy,...
Blowin' In The Wind (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Enid Blyton beats Shakespeare! It had to happen. Blyton is more reader-friendly. I am surprised Agatha Christie didn't beat Shakespeare. But she's also in the top 10. Here are Britain's best loved story tellers, according to a survey by Costa...
This Is This (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Katy Newton Says: August 7th, 2008 at 10:05 am 59 What does the future hold? Me by the neck. What will the future be like? Like this only faster. Who invented the very first computer? The very first? Depends what you call a computer. An adding machine? Could they be mechanical? Ancient civilisations has things that worked out angles and stuff. Those are [...]
The Atheist Experience (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
That was Isaac Asimov's blunt dismissal of religion. And its appropriateness is never more evident than in this pitifully sad article currently on CNN.com, in which the point is made that "when it comes to saving lives, God trumps doctors for many Americans."More than half of randomly surveyed adults — 57 percent — said God's intervention could save a family member even if physicians declared
