Posted on September 13, 2009 by Bill the sci-fi guy
Linky time again.
Sci Fi Wire has a map of 68 must-see sci-fi sites around the U.S. (with a few in Canada as well). Museums, buildings and locations used in movies, that sort of thing. Some of them are pretty lame; and hey, what’s The Texas Chainsaw Massaacre doing in there? The Midwest [...]
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Posted on May 31, 2009 by Bill the sci-fi guy
Creation…..
It is its own nemesis. Success is temporary, and idolization will not make the ephemeral permanent. Decay is implicit in the birth of any organism.
An empire is an organism.
Title: Star Bridge
Authors: Jack Williamson and James E. Gunn
Year: 1955
Rating: 3/5 stars
A while back I was looking for more Gunn to [...]
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Posted on February 1, 2009 by Bill the sci-fi guy
She stared at him, her head spinning. Aliens? she thought. In medieval Germany? It was fantastic, unbelievable.
Yes, aliens in medieval Germany. That’s the general premise of Eifelheim (2006), Michael Flynn’s unusual take on extraterrestrial contact set in the fourteenth century when the Black Death was ravaging Europe. This is a [...]
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Posted on November 27, 2008 by Bill the sci-fi guy
If you’re done eating turkey and you’ve parked yourself in front of the computer to sit and digest your dinner a while, be sure to take a look at this John Scalzi Sci-Fi Scanner post in which he tells us what he’s thankful for in terms of science fiction movies.
Science fiction is worth giving thanks [...]
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Posted on November 7, 2008 by Bill the sci-fi guy
A while back I did a review of Charles Platt’s Dream Makers: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers at Work, a collection of interviews he conducted with numerous famous authors. The particular item I was reviewing was a 1987 hardcover edition that was, I stated at the time, a merger of two previous paperback [...]
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Posted on October 28, 2008 by Bill the sci-fi guy
Over at Discover magazine’s Science Not Fiction blog, there’s an article about the discovery by astronomers that one of our closest stellar neighbors, Epsilon Eridani (10.5 light years away) has a solar system somewhat like our own, with rocky inner planets, outer gas giants, and two asteroid belts.
This is good news, insofar as numerous science [...]
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