A common theme in many of today’s scifi stories is one of desolation, typically a planet ruined by human activity, or a population which cannot be properly fed or sustained.
Where is the creative thinking which gave birth to our precious genre? Where are the hero scientists who learn to feed a million people per [...]
Why are scifi authors so pessimistic about the future?
August 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments
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Free Science Fiction from Tor
June 21st, 2008 · No Comments
Tor Books offers free science fiction downloads every week just for signing up. Not sure if they ever have science fiction short stories.
This week’s book is In the Midnight Hour by Patti O’Shea. The next book will be Battlestar Galactica by Jeffrey Carver.
They don’t appear to have a science fiction blog.
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The Best Time Travel Movies
June 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments
A recent post on TopTenz offered the Top 10 time travel movies. With all due respect it’s not clear that “time travel” was an important concept in this list. For example, in the Terminator movies there is a single time travel event at the very beginning of the movie and then nothing more. [...]
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