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Author Recommendation: Neal Asher
Several months ago I wrote an opinion post recommending a number of currently working UK genre writers to North American readers. At that time I threatened to post, weekly, a brief synopsis of their work to date in alphabetical order, and reasons why North American fans should read them. Unfortunately, my time herding skills fell…
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Buzz Aldrin: Rapper
Legendary astronaut Buzz Aldrin recently teamed up with Snoop Dogg and Talib Kweli to record “Rocket Experience.” The song is available for purchase on iTunes, and a portion of the proceeds will go to support the work of the National Space Society, the Planetary Society and the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation. There’s also a “making of”…
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Attic of Astounding Artifacts
Doc Atomic is a collector of vintage toys from the “space craze” of the 50s and 60s. I like this bit from his “origins” post: But soon, the second level kicked in and age began to matter. The vintage toys were a direct, physical connection to previous science-fiction and robot fans. They were owned and…
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Clockworks: Steampunk Webcomic
Shawn Gaston, who was the artist half of the short-lived-but-amusing RPG webcomic Chainmail Bikini, has launched a new project. Clockworks is a steampunk/fantasy story, set in a world of giant stompy robots, outlawed magic, forgotten and dangerous old gods, ether driven mad science, and goggle wearing heroes who travel the world in search of danger…
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Plant Science
This isn’t science fiction or even the sort of space science that we usually mention here, but yesterday Discoblog linked to an article detailing a study which suggests that talking to your plants actually can make them grow better. Researchers recorded volunteer “plant whisperers” and played the recordings to tomato plants (via headphones attached to…
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Alice in Wonderland Photos
Slice of SciFi has just posted several promotional photos from the upcoming Tim Burton version of Alice in Wonderland. (You can also see a couple of images of the sets at SciFi Wire.) I don’t believe I’ll be able to sleep tonight.
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I Have No Words
Just…just click.
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Miéville’s New Literary Movements
Amazon’s new Omnivoracious blog has a guest post by author China Miéville, discussing five literary movements that haven’t happened yet (he suggests naming the movements in advance and then writing books to fit them, which certainly would save a lot of time). He includes tips to help writers exploring a particular movement sound more erudite…
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1977 Star Wars Article
Fantastic Flashbacks is a brand-new SF blog spun off from the Monster Memories “classic creatures” blog. They’ve just posted some scans of a Time Magazine article from 1977, discussing that new Star Wars movie that was just about to debut. Given the ubiquity of SW in pop culture today, there’s kind of a time-capsule feel…
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Seen Online
“Readers Digest Condensed Battlefield Earth!” “But Johnny was not afraid. And the blue tinge faded. Suck suck suck. The end.” — sharkey Bonotrooper: “I stiiiiill… haven’t foooound… the droids I was looking for.” — sween My parents went to this planet whose dominant life-form lacks lateral symmetry, and all I got was this stupid F-shirt.…