December 2008
Science Fiction Book Review #1: "Rainbow Mars" by Larry Niven (1999)
Submitted by Republibot 3.0 on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 13:16From about 1969 to about 1973 Niven wrote five deliberately goofy stories about a time traveler from the middle of the thirty-first century. His job is to retrieve extinct animals from the past – and in the year 3050 pretty much all animals are extinct excepting people and dogs – and bring them to a private United Nations zoo. Hilarity ensues. Well, ‘Hilarity’ might be overstating it, but they are cute funny little stories that aren’t perhaps as tight as one would normally expect from Niven, but that’s part of their charm.
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Submitted by Republibot 2.0 on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 10:31
A failure to learn from the past means you'll be unable to travel through time and change it...
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Cheat and Read the Scripts to this Fall's Science Fiction Shows Online Now!
Submitted by Republibot 3.0 on Tue, 12/30/2008 - 14:22Ok, this site has put the first draft scripts for a whole bunch of series that haven’t premiered yet on TV. Four of them are either flat-out Science Fiction, or at least Science Fiction-ey. Check 'em out under the jump!
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Submitted by Republibot 3.0 on Tue, 12/30/2008 - 09:04- NASA Moon MUSH! In one of their ongoing efforts to turn the nation’s disappointing space program into a theme park, NASA is developing a multi-player online game to simulate trips to the moon http://procurement.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/synopsis.cgi?acqid=128415 I have to say this sounds pretty cool.
- Astronomy Picture of the day! http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/
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Submitted by Republibot 3.0 on Mon, 12/29/2008 - 15:35
I don’t mind if we have some people cheering and some people booing during certain songs, because the debate over those issues is what’s important.
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Submitted by Republibot 3.0 on Mon, 12/29/2008 - 15:31
I remember the first day I went for a cup of tea in Oxford [Mississippi], and I looked up at the courthouse and saw the state flag, and it seemed very contradictory to me that this very gentle town with a university and an elegant bookshop with all these thoughtful and great writers would coexist [with that]. That coexistence is not always appreciated by people who make generalizations about the South or areas outside of its major metropolitan areas. They don’t realize that there are great writers or take in the literary or cultural dimension of these places.
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A Spoonful of Sugar Makes the International Homosexual Agenda go Down.
Submitted by Republibot 3.0 on Mon, 12/29/2008 - 11:28Is it just me, or is SF getting rather gay of late? Of course SF is naturally rather scattershot and leftist, so trying to nail known any specific agenda is always rather tough, but that just makes it all the more remarkable when science fiction suddenly gets in lockstep with itself and marches to the beat of the same drummer. This is, by its very nature, something the genre isn’t *supposed* to do. So the sudden and rather massive increase in ‘Gay SF’ in the media is probably all the more surprising because of that.
Read more!Interesting links - some SF, some not - from other sites
Submitted by Republibot 3.0 on Sun, 12/28/2008 - 11:37So here’s a bunch of links that I, Republibot 3.0, Genius, have found on the web that I thought might amuse you:
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Submitted by Republibot 3.0 on Sat, 12/27/2008 - 17:15
Science Fiction on Television is basically an exercise in explaining away the limitations of your budget.
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I am lord of all I survey, provided the bathroom door is closed.
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