Most grateful to Counting Cats for this.
As a lifelong SF fan I know my limits; comic books (the true cognoscenti disdain the modern pseudoeuphemism ‘graphic novels’) are a very specialised field in which I have never really dabbled. Besides, I don’t much care for ‘em, particularly not the American ’superhero’ stuff, because Nietzsche arranged Hollywood [...]
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The Lit Crit Bit
Posted in science fiction, tagged The probability broach on 14 August, 2009 | 10 Comments »
SF Theme Meme
Posted in science fiction, tagged meme, theme on 20 April, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There is a report in The Independent about a poll conducted by Total Sci Fi Online (who are clearly to young to understand that ‘Sci Fi’, invented in the 1960s by some damnable journalist to rhyme with ‘Hi Fi’, is not the correct abbreviation; the acronym ‘SF’ is always preferred) which concerns the top ten [...]
“Fifteen seconds; guidance is internal. Engines start: ten, nine, eight…”
Posted in Astronautics, science fiction, tagged links on 24 March, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Something of a case of crossed purposes with some commenters (to whom, as ever, I am obliged) led me to realise that I have never really made much of my interests in astronautics and science fiction.
Though government-run space programmes (except perhaps a couple) languish in their own bureaucratic excreta, private enterprise of various kinds is [...]
Always claim responsibility
Posted in science fiction, tagged Eric Frank Russell on 1 January, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Scottish Herald:
Edinburgh police investigate human head found in bag
Quote of the day:
Butin Arhava was the third.
The list is long.
Dirac Angestun Gesept*.
[Eric Frank Russell: Wasp]
* ‘Sirian Freedom Party’. The note was found following an anonymous phone call to the Jaimec authorities: ‘Somebody’s been decapitated. There’s a head in a sack near marker 8-den on the [...]
