webbunny tumblelog (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” - Robert A. Heinlein
Verbosity (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Somewhere around the house you have these cutoffs. You made them when you were eighteen or thereabouts and liked nothing better than to scruff around in DMs, band tops and jeans. These cutoffs are no ordinary cutoffs, however. They are covered in quotes. No, you don’t know why you still have them. Probably they will come in handy when the Star starts [...]
io9 (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Print may be dying all over, but is that any excuse to let science-fiction magazines retreat to the internet or non-existence? Of course not! Here's our five step guide on potential ways to save this... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Ace of Spades (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
And if there's water, there's the chance of life. No, not Moon-life. But if there is water on the moon, we don't need to space-truck all that heavy liquid up there, but instead can just put up the (much lighter)...
martinimade (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
"Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events." - Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long* * I think. I...
Fragile Industries (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Hey, can I write an attention-grabbing title or what? The problem is that everyone jumps the explanation (this post) to read whatever trash I wrote while in a blackout. Maybe I'll re-think this. Because the explanation is awfully goddamn noble...
Lady, That's My Skull (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
This installment of the Futura Saga from Planet Comics #52 (January 1948) continues the "Magic Sword" story. The cover is another fine example of the Good Girl Art school of marketing so common to the pulps and other popular printed media of the time. The inclusion of the penis-dentata monster and the coloring detail highlighting the "fun zones" of the distressed damsel make the...
JParadisi RN's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
This fall, I’m reading the first 4 books of the Cherry Ames series, by Helen Wells, for the first time. Cherry Ames, if you don’t know, is an 18 year-old student nurse, who’s intuitive style of patient care and indomitable spunk lead her through a spree of madcap adventures in the halls of fictional Spencer Hospital, eventually earning her cap and the coveted black [...]
man with black hat (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
... change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, pitch manure, solve equations, analyze a new problem, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -- Robert A Heinlein (1907 – 1988) (H/T...
Italy Down Under (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Keywords: CD Romeo Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare – Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 3 Audio CDs The play starts with a street brawl between Montagues and Capulets. The Prince of Verona intervenes and declares...
Italy Down Under (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Robert A Heinlein was an American novelist and science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he is one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of "hard science fiction"
Fragile Industries (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
I just finished re-reading Robert A. Heinlein's Time Enough For Love, my first revisit to Heinlein's writing since my teens (nearly 40 years ago). As a kid, I first was hooked by RAH's juveniles, progressed to Stranger In A Strange...
Italy Down Under (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Robert A Heinlein was an American novelist and science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he is one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of "hard science fiction". He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality. He was the first writer to break into...
Paul Grenyer (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
by Robert A. Heinlein (978-0340938348). This book lacks much real science fiction. At most it's a fantasy book. What it really is is a dig at society and religion and that, unfortunately, stifles a story that actually isn't there. Many science fiction books make these points as well, but that doesn't make this science fiction. If this was a relatively new book I'd say it's all been done before, but...
Italy Down Under (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Robert A Heinlein was an American novelist and science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he is one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of "hard science fiction". He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality. He was the first writer to break into...
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