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Random Link #5
Due to unavoidable out-of-townedness, there will be no new posts this week. Instead, please to enjoy a selection of random links. Grand List of Overused Science Fiction Cliches
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Random Link #4
Due to unavoidable out-of-townedness, there will be no new posts this week. Instead, please to enjoy a selection of random links. Science Toys
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Random Link #3
Due to unavoidable out-of-townedness, there will be no new posts this week. Instead, please to enjoy a selection of random links. The Planetary Society
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Random Link #2
Due to unavoidable out-of-townedness, there will be no new posts this week. Instead, please to enjoy a selection of random links. Empty World
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Random Link #1
Due to unavoidable out-of-townedness, there will be no new posts this week. Instead, please to enjoy a selection of random links. Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company
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Short-Term Time Capsule
Shadowboy’s kindergarten class is making individual “time capsules” for their end-of-year project: A Pringles can filled with current ephemera that each child is supposed to open when they graduate high school. It’s been interesting to think about what things might be like a mere 12 years in the future: Not only what we might have…
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Trivia Thursday
A colony world has used its powerful technology to recreate Hindu culture, whose elite assume the roles of the gods. The hero first rebels against these “gods” on their own terms, but then opposes them more successfully with a new faith. Which Roger Zelazny novel is this? The trilogy that includes City of Baraboo and…
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Neat Retro Space Colony Print
BoingBoing has a reasonably new marketing venture, the BoingBoing Bazaar, where makers and other artists peddle interesting oddities. Illustrator Chris Reccardi has a new limited-edition print called 2464 Dream which is like a cross-section of Hugo Gernsback’s brain. It’s lovely, and actually reasonably affordable. Limited to 250, at $65 each. Pretty!
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Oasis 23 Con Report
O*W*C members often send us reports that detail their experiences at various conventions. Joy V. Smith recently attended Oasis 23, and kindly sent us her report. You can see the whole list of past reports here.
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“Cabinet of Curiosities” Auction
A Creationist “natural history” museum in Georgia is auctioning off its collection, and although I despair at giving money to charlatans, there’s some awesome stuff to be had. Items up for sale include: authentic mammoth teeth leaf fossils 3-pc dinosaur fossil woolly mammoth hair dinosaur replicas mummified cats from Egypt carved and decorated hippo teeth…