SF Tidbits for 8/9/07
By John DeNardo |
Thursday, August 9th, 2007 at
1:17 am
- Spaceman Blues: A Love Song author Brian Francis Slattery has posted the first chapter of the book at his website. [via The Art Department]
- Space Westerns has posted an audio interview with editor David G. Hartwell. [via SF Scope]
- Over at Deep Genre, Lois Tilton looks at Libertarian science fiction. “To the extent that space fills up with people, the SF libertarians will find that life there is even less likely to be free than it was on Earth.”
- Pulp Faction identifies The Best Science-Fiction Comic You’ll Never Read: a 1960s adaptation of Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination. [via Locus Online]
- Mark Newton at Solaris shows off the cool-looking cover of Blue War by Jeffrey Thomas.
- James Patrick Kelly is podcasting his novel Look Into the Sun. Here’s Part 23.
- David Langford has posted Ansible 241.
- Sign o’ the times: Here’s the MySpace page of Physicist Mich io Kaku (Hyperspace). [via Fred at Texas Best Grok]
- From the BBC: “Four gigantic galaxies have been seen crashing into one another in one of the biggest cosmic collisions ever seen.”
- Andrew D. Maynard, Chief Science Advisor for the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, looks at how nanotech looks like magic. [via sf author Larry Ketchersid]
- Here’s a gallery of science related tattoos. [via Cynical-C]
- SuicideBot’s photo of the day is the BeggarBot. Help a ‘bot who’s down on his luck…
- Cereal Killers is the blog version of “a spooky, kooky coffin table cartoon art book featuring terrorfying takes on some of your favorite breakfast cereals”. so you get cool yummies like Cthulhu Crunch, Lucifer Charms, Postmort-mmmms and Kellog’s Frightened Flakes. These images are grrrrrrrreat! (Sorry…couldn’t resist.)
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Heavy Metal did a serial version of “Stars” done by Howard Chaykin (later published as a trade paperback). I wish the HM stuff was available again, especially the “Airtight Garage of Jerry Cornelius” and other stuff by Moebius. Great stuff that all was!
“To the extent that space fills up with people, the SF libertarians will find that life there is even less likely to be free than it was on Earth.”
and he does not show one example from one book.
What libertarian book is this from?
There is a strong strain of elitism within the sort of libertarianism that tends to manifest itself in SF, a strain that appears to be descended from the scenarios of Ayn Rand, in which the few specimens of homo superior band together to form a new society, excluding the parasitical masses of lesser humans. In the same way, libertarian SF authors seem to assume that only those who wish to live free will be drawn to space, and together, these like-minded individualist individuals can establish a society based on individual liberty.
Last I checked the people on the moon in “The moon is a harsh mistress” were all criminals and rejects and the new society they built asked the earth to send its poor and unwanted.
Maybe he read Atlas Shrugged and came to the false conclusion that she was a libertarian.