Locus Magazine contributor Claude Lalumiere has written an awesome career retrospective of sf grandmaster Robert Silverberg.
Silverberg’s bibliography is huge. He has received and been nominated for numerous awards. All this and his career even included several retirements from sf! Earlier this year, I read Silverberg’s Nightwings and loved it.
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Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver, Volume 1 of The Baroque Cycle, can now be yours in audiobook format…for $75.
[link via The Eternal Golden Braid]
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Now you can print your own iPod skins. And buy more ink. Cha-ching!
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The robots selected this year for induction into the Robot Hall of Fame are:
- Honda’s humanoid robot ASIMO
- Shakey, the first mobile robot to reason about its actions, developed by SRI International
- Astro Boy, a Japanese animation of a robot with a soul
- Robby the Robot, from MGM’s 1956 science fiction epic Forbidden Planet
- C-3PO, from the Star Wars series
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The science fiction novella “Stories for Men“ by John Kessel has been banned from a high school English class in Seaside, Oregon.
I read this finalist for the 2004 novella Nebula Award about six months ago and rated it a 5 out of 5. The things I do remember about the story are not objectionable, but judge for yourself.
[via Locus Online]
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By
JP Frantz | Tuesday, October 12th, 2004 at
4:49 pm
It seems that Warhammer Online has a new lease on life.
Now Tim, and Kevin, can, hopefully, stop painting miniatures and actually play the game!
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Here are the results of the latest SF Signal poll
QUESTION
Who is your favorite science fiction villain?
RESULTS
60% – Darth Vader
20% – Terminator (original)
10% – Agent Smith
10% – Ming the Merciless
0% – Alien Queen
0% – Baltar
0% – Darth Maul
0% – Magneto
0% – Predator
(Total votes: 20)
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Ralmon sent me a link to a video on forklift safety.
It’s in German so give it 30 seconds or so to kick in.
Then it gets…interesting.
Read the rest of this entry
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Yahoo Games now offers Q*Bert!
Ah yes, Q*Bert, that lovable, snorkel-nosed hopper of cubes who harkens back to a simpler time when hardcore gaming meant standing in front of a big, wooden box rhythmically pushing a joystick in the hard-to-master diagonal direction. I remember getting the ColecoVision version of this game (or was it the Commodore 64 version? or the Atari 5200 version?) and playing for hours. If I ever invent a time machine, I’m going to go back in time and give myself a life.
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By
Peter | Monday, October 11th, 2004 at
1:40 pm
According to this news article, the actor, Christopher Reeve, has passed away from heart failure.
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This /. article on an upcoming interview with Neal Stephenson mentions his very popular essay on operating systems and free software which I read a few years back. It’s called In the Beginning…was the Command Line and it’s worth the read.
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Shrek 2 will be available on DVD on Friday November 5th, according to Reuters.
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Tim | Monday, October 11th, 2004 at
12:38 pm
Thats what this article over at GameSpot calls the new game coming from Irrational. I enjoyed System Shock 2, and I will be interested to see how this one turns out.
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By
Tim | Monday, October 11th, 2004 at
9:36 am
According to several websites, including this Telegram news site, scientists may have discovered a new form of ape. This one is claimed to have killed full grown lions. The article references Michael Crighton’s Congo book. Now if only they were zombies and nazis and we would have a movie here….
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David Bowie‘s Space Oddity has been chosen as the first track to be played on the first commercial space trip for tourists.
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Not that I troll Star Wars newsfeeds or anything, but the TheForce.net has posted a spoiler-laden description of the Episode III trailer. It does not mention how they came about this information, so take it at face value.
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JP Frantz | Sunday, October 10th, 2004 at
9:55 pm
[ SCRAPLAND ] is a new game by American McGee, who also did Alice. Its billed as a game with the open ended game play of GTA3, but set in a Sci Fi world and with a host of other interesting features.
The first thing from the demo that jumps out at me is this game looks great. Its bright, bold, a bit cartoony, and really cool to look at.
Secondly, since this world is fully 3D, I think it may actually be easier to play this game on an Xbox than on a PC. At least, a PC with only a keyboard and mouse.
I’ve thought, since play GTA3: Vice City, that this type of game would be a great vehicle for a SF-themed game. McGee seems to agree. However, Scrapland is taking a humorous, campy apporach to its SF setting. I still think that a gritty, serious SF world would make a great game in this vein. If only I had the money, programming talent, time and team of people, then I’d make it happen. Too bad all I have are the clowns around here. And I mean that in the nicest possible way…
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The second Business Week sf-related link today(!) gives us reasons to read science fiction.
[Link via Locusmag]
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The second presidential debate was tonight and it’s been a while since the last Star Wars post, so here we are.
[Link courtesy of Ralmon the Gen]
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