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Chip’s Picks – Dan Simmons
Continuing the Chip’s Picks series, my next author to recommend will be Dan Simmons. Simmons has done quite a bit of work in the horror genre (Summer of Night, Song of Kali), and his science fiction is tinged with a lot of cringe-inducing imagery. However, his descriptions are amazingly rich and detailed, and his characters…
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Baen Books Free to Disabled Readers
From the site: Baen Books (www.baen.com), a publisher of science fiction, will provide its books to fans who are blind, paralysed, or dyslexic, or are amputees, in electronic form free of charge, effective immediately.Baen Books is making this offer in recognition of Veterans Day, and all our disabled military veterans. Many Baen authors are veterans…
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Milky Way Shaped Life On Earth
Frenzied star-making in the Milky Way Galaxy starting about 2400 million years ago had extraordinary effects on life on Earth. Harvests of bacteria in the sea soared and crashed in a succession of booms and busts, with an instability not seen before or since. According to new results published by Dr. Henrik Svensmark of the…
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Cephalopodmas
www.cephalopodmas.org/carols/13daysof.php HA!!
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Chicago bidding again
Chicago lost their bid for the 2008 Worldcon to Denver during the vote at LACon IV. So they’re gonna try again.From avt_tor’s LJ (http://avt-tor.livejournal.com/194782.html): November 11, 2006, reporting from WindyCon “By a unanimous vote, the Chicago Worldcon Bid corporation decided to bid for a Worldcon in Chicago in 2012. A committee was named to define…
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Jack Williamson April 29, 1908 – November 10, 2006
Reported on several newsgroups and e-mail lists, he died peacefully at home. He published science fiction stories in each of nine decades. “The family has asked that, in lieu of flowers, contributions be made as follows: Â The Jack and Blanche Williamson Scholarship Fund ENMU Foundation Eastern New Mexico University Station #8 Portales NM 88130”…
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Chip’s Picks
One evening in chat, someone asked me for some “must-read” SF. I tossed together a list off the top of my cerebrum, and later posted it here on the site as a “Top Ten” list. I’ve decided to revisit the list as a series of blog posts, expanding upon the reasons behind some of my…
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Models in Spaaace!
The University of Tokyo recently hosted a spacewear fashion show with couture designed for weightless environments. Similar to the way that some coats are reversible, allowing you to look good in dry or wet weather, these clothes are directionally reversible, looking good “up” or “down.” Interestingly, none of them looked much like Starfleet uniforms….Link (via…
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Poking the Shub-Internet with a Stick
Artist Fang-Yu Lin is trying to make contact with the “aware” portion of the Internet. According to legend, Shub-Internet, Beast of a 1024 Processors, Eater of Characters, Avatar of Line Noise and countless other appellations rests peacefully in its lair deep beneath the Pentagon. Shub-Internet is nothing less than the harsh personification of the hideous…