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Aaaawwww
Mathias Pedersen makes me sad. Link (via VetMommy)
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Gary Gygax, RIP
Must have missed his saving throw. Link
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Nonfiction Essays by SF Authors
Amazon has a collection of nonfic essays written by SF/F authors, available as downloads for 50 cents each. For instance, Building Alternative Realities by Robert Silverberg: During my fifty years as a science-fiction writer I’ve often ventured into the invention of alternative worlds of possibility – history that never happened, but perhaps should have —…
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Janet Kagan, RIP
Via Locus and SFWA … SF writer Janet Kagan, born 1946, died Friday, 29 February 2008, of C.O.P.D. (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), at the age of 63. She was author of popular “Mama Jason” stories published in Asimov’s and collected in Mirabile (1991), and of two novels, Star Trek tie Uhura’s Song (1985), and Hellspark…
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Yup.
(via tinylittledivision)
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Straight to the Heart of the O*W*C Demographic
Talking Squids in Outer Space Any other commentary would be entirely superfluous. (via SF Signal)
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Earth-On-Moon Violence
NASA scientists are planning to whack a couple of spacecraft into the Moon’s south pole to see if they find water. We’ve never been to the Moon’s poles, and since some craters at the south pole are deep enough that sunlight never reaches the bottom there might be unsublimated ice lurking there. Researchers have already…
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White Rabbit
Gand, the self-proclaimed “Old Hippie,” wasn’t sure how to embed this, so I’ve obliged. This is Gand’s fault! Gand’s!
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Decorating my garden
I have a get-away garden – hidden between rooms (my house is shaped like a fat short U). I want THIS.
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The Abduction Lamp
Designer Lasse Klein has developed this prototype lamp and is now trying to get it produced. I don’t know how effective it would actually be as a light source, but it’s adorable. Features and add-ons include “alien abductors,” “human abductee,” and “bovine abductee.” There’s something about the vaguely puzzled-looking cow that completely cracks me up.…