Space Time Stories

Just finished listening to Joe Haldeman’s “The Accidental Time Machine” from Audible. As a time travel story it was excellent, there was a time machine, multiple uses of that machine, time travel was a key element of the story, and there was even a time loop. The overall story dragged at many points, especially when [...]

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I haven’t read them yet but here are 2 new Dune Novels, written by Frank Herbert’s son Brian, and Kevin Anderson.  Paul of Dune is a sequel to Dune (prior to Dune Messiah) while the soon to be released Winds of Dune takes place between Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. I will read them [...]

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Here’s a list of 5 promising new indie scifi movies from Sundance 2009.  The review is from Popular Mechanics.  No seriously it really is.   Just look at the URL. And here’s 2 more, web-only indie movies named The Black Dawn:Catalyst and The Black Dawn.  Thanks to Big Dumb Object for pointing out this series. Related [...]

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Optical SETI offers a much higher chance of finding a real signal because of the simple fact that there are no known natural sources of nanosecond pulses (or shorter).  Any 10 nanosecond pulse of light can only be from intelligent life (or of course a shocking new natural phenomenon). Recently a researcher in Australia has [...]

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John Grunsfeld just dedicated his HST ACS repair work to “the study of the behavior of small screws in space.” For the original Simpsons episode from Season 5 click here. Related posts Hubble repairs (0) Where are the aliens? (3) Alien Microbes (0)

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A new AI was born today, it’s now online, The Wolfram Alpha. I’d like to offer an especially warm greeting to our future overlord. To quote Stephen Wolfram:  “Wolfram|Alpha defines a new direction in computing—that would have simply not have been possible without Mathematica, and that in time will add some remarkable new dimensions to [...]

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Six word scifi stories are excellent ! Mine says: Time machine broken, dinosaurs are drooling ! Related posts Richard Morgan on Internecine SciFi Warfare (4) Joe Haldeman’s Accidental Time Machine (0) An excellent time travel movie: Timecrimes (0) Time Travel Websites (1)

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It’s not science fiction today, but 50 years ago this repair mission would have been considered a great scifi story. Here’s a link to the detailed mission timeline and NASA TV website. Rendezvous is Wednesday morning, grapple is 11:54AM CDT.  EVA #1 begins early Thursday. If you are reading this in the future you already [...]

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LOTR fans have released “The Hunt for Gollum“.  The trailer is excellent, the movie is even better.  Director and Executive Producer Chris Bouchard also wrote the score for yet another great fan film: “Star Wars Revelations“.   Since “The Hobbit” is now delayed until at least 2012 perhaps Chris and team might think about starting [...]

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I plan to tone down the ads on this website and emphasize the content.  So I’ve created the Spacetimestories Store on Amazon and plan to keep it updated with my favorite scifi books, movies, and gadgets. Related posts Indie Scifi Movies (0) The Best Time Travel Movies (8) Six word Scifi stories (1) Scifi Optimists [...]

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