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- Counter-rant: Why science fiction will never go extinct
- StorySouth confounder Jason Sanford takes time out of his busy schedule to smack me (and, to a much lesser extent, Charles Stross) around for drinking the Singularity Kool-Aid. While Sanford's reasons for doubting the onslaught of the coming Singularity are just as sound as those which predict its onset--and I...
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- Slashdot
- It's so gay. Literally. How could you people not know that? Am I the only one who uses Wikipedia anymore? Yup, nope. I'll have to quote for you:"Slash fiction is a genre of fan fiction. It focuses on the depiction of sexual or romantic relationships between two or more male...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-24
- A rare confluence of sci-fi and history
- Take a moment to recognize one of those odd historical coincidences that history occasionally serves up: Today is the anniversary of both Cordwainer Smith's birth and John W. Campbell's death. For those outside sci-fi literature, this date probably goes utterly unnoticed, but it shouldn't. These two men literally changed the...
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- One man's definition of science fiction
- One Mans Science fiction is another's fantasyOn that basis alternative history can't be science fiction.Describe the scientific rationale for choosing the event that meant Dixie was victorious.I've enjoyed a few books on this basis, but I treated them as fantasy, because I cannot suspend my disbelief to accept the psuedo...
- Discussion threads 2007-02-09
- Book Review: 'American Gods'
- DickensA good review of a fine novel, but I must demur against the crack about "Dickens tricks" in terms of the novel. The phrase is an apt condemnation of Dickens's imitators, but much like Gaiman, Dickens was a great novelist with an ability to merge popular dramatic and prose forms...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-19
- Book Review: 'Dead Until Dark'
- Thanks to my local science fiction book club, I've been expanding my reading horizons over the last few months, and thus came across at least one book I would almost certainly have never chosen to read on my own: Charlaine Harris' Dead Until Dark, the first in the author's surprisingly...
- Blog posts 2007-01-02
- Photos: Life imitates Star Trek
- The devices used by Capt. Kirk and his crew seemed so futuristic at one time. But reality has caught up to fiction.
- Image galleries 2006-10-05
- Boost your reading, writing with the Save APEX raffle
- The Save APEX magazine effort is going strong, but to put the effort over the top, there is now a Save APEX raffle that has some painfully cool items for your reading and writing pleasure. For a mere $1, you may enter to win one of over 40 items, which...
- Blog posts 2006-09-25
- Take cheap shots at the Trivia Geek's fiction
- So my unwitting and likely unwilling Jedi Master John Scalzi posted today that somebody had gone and made the first chapter of his military sci-fi novel The Ghost Brigades available for download--without telling him. It wasn't illegal--the book's publisher was responsible--and Scalzi certainly didn't have a problem with the idea...
- Blog posts 2006-07-06
- Why my writing stinks, and what to do about it
- My Jedi Master, John Scalzi, has posted 10 Things Teenage Writers Should Know About Writing, where he explains why all teenage writers tend to be awful at writing--despite the fact that most teenage writers think they themselves are brilliant. (Full disclosure: When I was a teenager ...
- Blog posts 2006-04-28
- Feds approve liberal election rules for Net
- Will the government eventually stifle robust Internet debate?The Federal Election Commission recently approved rules to regulate political ads on Web sites. Now that a formal regulatory framework is in place, proponents of online free speech worry that it will be tempting for the government to gradually stifle robust Internet debate.What...
- Discussion threads 2006-03-28
- Life and Times of a VTC Geek
- blog rootI've found my calling. I want to be just like...Why have I been wasting all of my time reading all of those boring technical articles when I could have spent that time being enlightened by the delightful musings of the Trivia Geek’sTrivial Pursuits?Oh yeah, those other articles help...
- Discussion threads 2005-09-29
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- A few thousand science fiction covers
- An experimental interface for browsing thru about 3500 science fiction book covers from the Visual Index of Science Fiction Cover Art VISCO. The covers are arranged horizontally by time, and vertically by cover.This post originally appeared on an external website by Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2005-10-17
- Found: Mission statement, Jedi Master
- Longtime readers of this blog (oh, there you two are) will recognize that I haven't posted anything about my creative writing in a few months. That's mostly because I haven't been doing any. Crisis of confidence, really. I didn't know what kind of science fiction to ...
- Blog posts 2005-12-15
- Celebrate Moon Day, July 20 or 21
- Have you ever heard of Moon Day? Read an editorial by Sheila Williams from Asimov's, Moon Day. If you're not a fan of science fiction (is that possible?), don't worry, this is an editorial not a science fiction story.I'd like to believe that it's science fiction that it...
- Blog posts 2006-06-11
- My writing career: Throwing a changeup
- As I mentioned last week, I recently finished another science fiction story, and yesterday I did a redraft that didn't blow my socks off, but did redress some of the criticism I'd received from my writers group. I decided it was time to submit, and that I'd hold off on...
- Blog posts 2006-07-12
- Book Reading Records (zip)
- Store Author's Name, Book Name, Date Started Reading, Recommend to friends, Date Completed Reading, Fiction or non-fiction, Recommended By, Summary in a few lines, Quotable phrases from Book, and Comments . This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Software downloads 2008-06-03
- FBI's secret spyware becomes public
- 1984 BY GEORGE ORWELL FORTOLD THISSICENCE FICTION HAS BECOME REAILTY AGAIN.1984 BY GEORGE ORWELL FORTOLD THIS. i READ THIS BOOK IN THE EARLY 1960'S AND FOUND IT HARD TO THINK IT COULD BE AS THE PRICE OF MAINFRAMES WERE NOT SOMETHING THAT JUST ANYONE COULD HAVE.AS A SOCIETY WE...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-23
- Debate: Is science fiction destroying the future of spaceflight?
- Science fiction authors Geoffrey A. Landis, M.M. Buckner and Adam Roberts discuss Project Constellation, NASA's planned successor to the space shuttle which will also be used as the base platform for planned trips back to the moon and, eventually, Mars. Landis has a couple of Hugos to his name, but...
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
- Text block Writer (exe)
- Text Block Writer is a virtual index card program for writers. It can be used to organize research papers, articles, fiction, non-fiction, books and whatever related to writing. It is intended for people like me who use paper index cards to write all the notes and pieces of an essay,...
- Software downloads 2007-03-27
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