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August 9, 2011
Eric Rabkin Interviewed on Kindle Post
I missed this when it was posted a few days ago. Kindle Daily Post has a great interview with Prof. Eric Rabkin of the University of Michigan as part of their plug for their new promotion offering a free subscription to a paired down version of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. He talks [...]
August 8, 2011
Tau Zero Review
I picked up a copy of Poul Anderson's Tau Zero on ebay last year in a lot of mixed classic sci-fi novels. It turned out to be one my favorite novels from the last few years. The crew of an interstellar expedition become trapped on board in an ever accelerating Bussard ramjet, hurtling through the [...]
August 5, 2011
To The Moon
Via i09, the site Sci-Fi-O-Rama has a great post. In 1969 Time-Life Records released TO THE MOON, a six record set interviews and astronaut conversations along with an accompanying photo diary book. Sci-Fi-O-Rama has some beautiful scans from the book. I only wish they had been able to transfer some of the recordings. I was [...]
August 4, 2011
Richard M. Powers covers
I came across this a while ago and thought it would be good to share. A fellow named Levar, who runs the blog Vintage Paperbacks, has a ton of old sci-fi and pulp covers posted on flickr. His collection of covers by sci-fi artist Richard M. Powers is particularly large and the covers are amazing. [...]
August 2, 2011
There is an interesting article in the Atlantic today by ...
There is an interesting article in the Atlantic today by E.D. Kain, the blogger of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen about the current popularity of Fantasy stories in fiction, movies, and TV. Kain thinks were in a Fantasy bubble that will inevitably burst. As much as I'm enjoying the bubble, I won't care too much [...]
August 1, 2011
Seattle Space Needle Giving Away Trip to Space
This is fun news. Seattle's Space Needle is giving away a free trip to space to celebrate their 50th anniversary. The space flight will be with Space Adventures. Who doesn't want to free trip to space? I'm entering today.
July 29, 2011
Paolo Soleri and Arcosanti
When I was a kid, about 11 or twelve I guess, there was an episode of 60 Minutes that featured an architect building a new kind of city in the desert of Arizona. Shortly thereafter, I read a more detailed article about him in Future Life Magazine, a magazine of science and science fiction that [...]
July 28, 2011
Spaceship Art and Prof. Eric Rabkin
There is a nice article at BBC News today about the relationship between spaceship art and spaceship design. There is even a quote at the end of the article by my favorite professor from college, Eric S. Rabkin. But space is a particularly romanticized part of our vision of exploration, says Dr. Eric Rabkin, a [...]
July 27, 2011
The Name of the Wind/ The Wise Man's Fear
I finished Patrick Rothfuss's The Wise Man's Fear a while ago. Before I write about that I should write about The Name of the Wind, the novel that precedes it in his King Killer Chronicle. I loved The Name of the Wind. LOVED IT. I hadn't read a novel that I enjoyed that much in [...]
July 26, 2011
Sci-Fi Classics to be Reissued as Ebooks
Great news today. SF Gateway will be publishing tons of great sci-fi classics as ebooks over the next few years. Whole back lists of authors whose work is currently out of print an unavailable. They are being published by Orion Books, the same folks who are bringing us the online version of the Encyclopedia of [...]
