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Discussion of written science fiction and fantasy.
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Girl Genius - 2010-03-10
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Way to go, Agatha. ( Although... it wonders me, why didn't she think of having some clanks along to play her music... even if it didn't work as well as in Sturmhalten, couldn't hurt. ) Wayne Throop thro...@sheol.org [link]
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Doesn't anyone proofread any more?
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Given the year-plus between the submission of a book and its being published (as described in detail by the profressionals here), you'd think there would be time for at least one thorough proofreading pass. I'm always surprised when I find something like the following from Asmimov's [1] _Forward the... more »
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YASID: possibly from Analog.... DNA decoding
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Somewhere in the past decade or so there was an SF story in, iirc, Analog which... (memory fading so don't hold this description as gospel)... .. in which there was a big battle as to who had invented or discovered a bio process. The answer was courtesy of encodings added to "telomeres", that is, onto the "garbage" portion of DNA strands. The... more »
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Starship Adverts
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The New York edition of the International Herald Tribune reports a forthcoming book which features the space-themed advertising of the late 50s and early 60s, which looks like the sort of thing that quite a few folks around here could get completely lost in: [link]... more »
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Markus Heitz's _The Dwarves_
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Has anyone read Markus Heitz's _The Dwarves_ or its sequel? If so, any comments on it? Comparisons to other works appreciated. - W. Citoan
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Call for Participation - Theatre Conference 2010
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International Conference "Performing Arts Training Today" April 28 - May 1, 2010 Leitring bei Leibnitz, Austria "Performing Arts Training Today" is the professional conference open to performers, performing arts educators and teachers from all over the world interested in the research of topical questions and... more »
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Some thoughts on _Space Caddet_
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_Space Cadet_ is (as far as I can tell) the second juvenile that Heinlein wrote, which makes it the earliest one that I've read. It has the standard ingredients: boy in late teens enters a new environment, finds he's neither as tough nor as smart as he thought, almost gives up, sticks with it, faces a serious... more »
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So Much for the 21st Century...
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For many years, I carried a bound book, a record or log book, and took all my notes on the lined and numbered pages. Come the 21st century, I switched to the obviously superior technology of PDAs with handwriting recognition. Now my notes were electronic and vastly more useful... Except, almost no one makes large screen, general purpose PDAs much... more »
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