Isaac Asimov - How I, Robot gets the science-fiction grandmaster wrong. By Chris Suellentrop

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Douglas Feith - What has the Pentagon's
third man done wrong? Everything. By
Chris Suellentrop

Douglas Feith - What has the Pentagon's
third man done wrong? Everything. By
Chris Suellentrop 05/23/2004 12:25 AM
done everything wrong .. Douglas Feith .. writes .. Feith

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Jesus Christ - Choose your own savior.
By Chris Suellentrop

Jesus Christ - Choose your own savior.
By Chris Suellentrop 04/16/2004 10:16 AM
Jesus Christ: Choose your own savior .. the many images of Jesus .. Jesus is Everybody .. Continue .. Jesus .. Slate

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Milk - How a wholesome drink became a
villain. By Chris Suellentrop

Milk - How a wholesome drink became a
villain. By Chris Suellentrop 06/21/2004 11:02 AM
Milk: How a Wholesome Drink Became a Villain .. Everything that’s bad about milk; .. The trouble with milk

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Garfield - Why we hate the Mouse but not
the cartoon copycat. By Chris
Suellentrop

Garfield - Why we hate the Mouse but not
the cartoon copycat. By Chris
Suellentrop 06/15/2004 06:59 AM
Slate on the carefully plotted Garfield empire .. all things Garfield

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That '70s Campaign - Al Gore thinks it's
1976 all over again. By Chris
Suellentrop

That '70s Campaign - Al Gore thinks it's
1976 all over again. By Chris
Suellentrop 02/10/2004 09:18 AM
Chris Suellentrop messes his pants .. bitter, bitter man .. deranged rant .. was there

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Howard Dean's No Good, Very Bad Night -
Why his campaign flopped in Iowa. By
Chris Suellentrop

Howard Dean's No Good, Very Bad Night -
Why his campaign flopped in Iowa. By
Chris Suellentrop 01/22/2004 02:13 AM
Dean message became about the past, not the future, the campaign, not the voters .. Dean's third place finish in Iowa .. So much for inspiring new voters .. Chris Suellentrop's suggestion

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Wesley Clark Buys a Sweater - With the
candidate in the dressing rooms of New
Hampshire. By Chris Suellentrop

Wesley Clark Buys a Sweater - With the
candidate in the dressing rooms of New
Hampshire. By Chris Suellentrop 01/11/2004 10:31 PM
Gen. Clark Buys a Sweater .. The press watches

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The Condensed Bill Clinton - Slate reads
My Life so you don't have to. By Bryan
Curtis, Chris Suellentrop, and Julia
Turner

The Condensed Bill Clinton - Slate reads
My Life so you don't have to. By Bryan
Curtis, Chris Suellentrop, and Julia
Turner 06/23/2004 02:07 PM
The Condensed Bill Clinton .. condenses Clinton's book .. juicy bits .. Slate

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Dog Licks Man - The lamest press
releases of the 2004 campaign. By
William Saletan, Chris Suellentrop, and
Matt Schiller

Dog Licks Man - The lamest press
releases of the 2004 campaign. By
William Saletan, Chris Suellentrop, and
Matt Schiller 01/17/2004 11:09 PM
William Saletan, Chris Suellentrop, and Matt Schiller .. The lamest press releases of the 2004 campaign .. Dog Licks Man

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Making Science Fact, Now Chronicling
Science Fiction

Making Science Fact, Now Chronicling
Science Fiction 06/14/2004 09:32 PM
Donna L. Shirley is director of the new Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle, where science fiction is used to spur interest in science.

Popular Science | Is Science Fiction
About to Go Blind?

Popular Science | Is Science Fiction
About to Go Blind? 08/17/2004 11:40 PM
The Singularity and its effect on science fiction .. "Is Science Fiction About to Go Blind?"

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Is Science Fiction About to Go Blind?

Is Science Fiction About to Go Blind? 08/17/2004 01:37 AM

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“Wandering through the exhibition room at a science-fiction convention in Boston a few months ago, I saw plenty of reprints of golden-age SF classics for sale. But I also encountered paintings of half-naked people battling dragons, vendors hawking crystals and a folk musician warming up for a recital. Where is the science in science fiction? I wondered. Whatever happened to envisioning the future? Anthropologist Judith Berman, who recently surveyed a crop of science fiction published…

"Science Fiction Museum"

"Science Fiction Museum" 06/13/2004 02:39 AM

Science Fiction and Religion

Science Fiction and Religion 01/19/2004 10:41 AM
I was reading an interview with Ted Chiang, and the first lines struck me: All science fiction is fundamentally post-religious literature. For those whose minds are shaped by science and technology, the universe is fundamentally knowable. Faith dissolves, replaced by a sense of wonder at the complexity of creation.What do you think of this?

Federally Funded Science Fiction

Federally Funded Science Fiction 08/21/2004 02:55 PM
would have looked like by 2008 .. Los Angeles Times .. Uh...yeah

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Were All The Good Science Fiction Ideas
Already Taken?

Were All The Good Science Fiction Ideas
Already Taken? 06/17/2005 03:33 PM
Science fiction often inspires, if not predicts, real scientific developments. But animated fiction? Yes, two professors are now working on a "teleporting" mechanism inspired by claymation such as Wallace and Gromit, the popular animated duo of movie fame. Sounds kind of dubious, but when you read the details it sounds fairly straightforward. The goal is to digitize an object, send it over a network, and reproduce it with synthetic particles on the other end. So you could have a live representation of, say, someone during a videoconference. It actually sounds less like teleporting and more like Star Wars (live holographic images of people beamed across space) meets rapid prototyping (replicating an image with synthetic particles). Still, it could be pretty interesting, even if it's a ways off. Maybe in the meantime they can develop one of those pairs of pants that lets you walk on the ceiling.

Is Science Fiction About The Future
Anymore?

Is Science Fiction About The Future
Anymore? 09/11/2004 10:46 AM

20 lectures on science fiction as MP3s

20 lectures on science fiction as MP3s 06/05/2004 05:54 AM
The University of Minnesota has posted the audio from 20 lectures from its "Studies in Narrative: Science Fiction and Fantasy" distance-ed course. I haven't listened to them yet, but I've put 'em on my iPod for long plane-trips. Link (Thanks, Justin!)

A&E gratuitously slams science fiction

A&E gratuitously slams science fiction 12/20/2003 02:36 PM
A&E has produced a craptacular Flash site to promote Lathe of Heaven, a telepic adapted from an Ursula K Le Guin story. The promo copy contains this grotesquely patronizing bit of gratuitously insulting analysis of science fiction, apparently aimed at ensuring that any science fiction fans who enjoy the work are put firmly in their place and instructed that this is different from that crappy rocket-ship stuff that they're accustomed to. I thought that this kind of thinking was dead and buried, but apparently, it's alive and well at A&E's marketing department. Flash Link, click "Author" (Thanks, Emilyg!)

40s science fiction comic scanned

40s science fiction comic scanned 01/17/2004 10:57 PM
Bless this kind-hearted sould who scanned a beautifully rendered comic book from the 1940s and uploaded it to his site. I wish all Golden Age comics were available like this. Link (via Irregular Orbit)

Chris Brown's What's so wrong about
peace, love and higher taxes

Chris Brown's What's so wrong about
peace, love and higher taxes 12/21/2003 06:15 AM

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Science Fiction Case Mod Contest: The
First Winner!

Science Fiction Case Mod Contest: The
First Winner! 06/05/2005 11:43 PM
Case Mods: Our first weekly case mod winner is 23-year-old David Barry, of Brooklyn, New York. David's Star Wars TIE Figher mod blew us away. David gets 50 free downloads from eMusic.com

Science Fiction Writers Discuss The
Future

Science Fiction Writers Discuss The
Future 09/11/2004 10:10 PM

"Science Fiction Museum and Hall of
Fame"

"Science Fiction Museum and Hall of
Fame" 06/22/2004 08:58 AM

Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy
for Teens

Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy
for Teens 03/31/2005 09:49 AM
Cory Doctorow: I've just finished an advance review copy of The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens, the first installment of a new anthology series edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Jane Yolen. This is an idea whose time has well and truly come: the editors pick stories that are suitable for teens from among the general selection of all the fantasy and science fiction published in the last year.

There's an old bon mot about science fiction: "the golden age of science fiction is 12." When I was about that age, I was haunting my local science fiction bookstore and library, reading everything a could get my hands on, a book every day or sometimes more. Those formative years made me into a lifelong reader of science fiction -- and a lifelong customer for science fiction writers.

But as anyone who attends science fiction conventions knows, fandom is aging without any especially large cohort of adolescents coming in behind it. Young people are still thoroughly engaged with sf, but it's through gaming, comics, and TV/films. All worthy endeavors, but to the extent that they're crowding out novels and stories, it's bad news for those of us who write sf -- and those of us who read it, since publishers won't be able to publish to the dwindling niche of genre readers forever; eventually we'll cross over into a market too small to serve.

And that's why this anthology (and New Skies and New Magics, two anthologies of sf and fantasy for kids edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden) is so important. It's not that the field lacks work that's appropriate for young people; it positively bursts with it. And as Yolen notes in her introduction, the precocious youngsters who come to sf are not easily intimidated by the notion that they are reading books intended for adult readers. But it's not enough: for those professionals and parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles and mentors looking to introduce their young friends to the field, it is hard to find the good stuff that will get them started and hook them for life (Jumper and its sequel Reflex, which I reviewed here earlier this month, are good choices for this task).

In creating and sustaining a new series of books that consistently identify quality, age-appropriate science fiction and fantasy, Yolen and Nielsen Hayden are doing important work -- providing a road-map for newcomers to the field, and a friend that they can visit with every year. What's more, the introduction to each story includes a suggested reading list of sf and fantasy novels of note that you should read if you like the story.

The stories in this anthology range from good to brilliant to jaw-dropping. It is relatively short on science fiction, but the main sf piece, Bradley Denton's "Sergeant Chip" is so good that it practically had me in tears on the bus this morning (no surprise, as Denton is one of the field's towering and under-appreciated geniuses, whose Buddy Holly is a Alive and Well on Ganymede is possibly the funniest book I've ever read). Sergeant Chip is the first-person narrative of an electronically enhanced dog serving in the K9 forces of an American military unit occupying a conquered country that is much like Iraq of today.

Many of the other standouts here are "contemporary fantasies," set in the modern world, American interpretations of magic realism, a favorite genre of mine. Kelly Link's "Faery Handbag" and Delia Sherman's "CATNYP" are the best examples here.

As to the rest, they are a taster's menu of well-executed, broadly chosen stories from every corner of the field, from heroic fantasy to straight-ahead science fiction to high fantasy. Brilliantly, the editors have also included Rudyard Kipling's 1904 story "They" -- and they promise that each edition of the anthology henceforth will include one century-old story from the annals of history.

The book should be appearing on shelves any day now -- it has a May pub-date which usually means that it starts appearing in April. If you have a young person in your life whom you want to introduce to a field that will teach her or him the most important lessons the world has to present; or if you are looking to reconnect with the field after neglecting the short story magazines and anthologies, then this book is the one for you. Link

Science fiction novel inspires first
ever Pocket PC virus

Science fiction novel inspires first
ever Pocket PC virus 07/22/2004 04:22 PM
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Antique science fiction toys for sale

Antique science fiction toys for sale 07/22/2004 02:31 AM
ToyTent are purveyors of astonishingly cool (and wickedly expensive) vintage space toys, robots, and rayguns. Just browsing the images of these things gets me all excited. Link (via Gizmodo)

Science fiction writers listed by
"religion"

Science fiction writers listed by
"religion" 04/09/2005 05:56 AM
Cory Doctorow: This is a long list of science fiction writers grouped by "religion," though there's some confusion (I'm listed as "Jewish," even though I'm an athiest; I'm ethinically Jewish but it's certainly not my religion). Still, it's fascinating to see the number of Mormon, Lutheran and Baha'i writers in the field. Link (Thanks, Isaac B2!)

"Studies in narrative: science fiction
and fantasy"

"Studies in narrative: science fiction
and fantasy" 06/09/2004 10:23 PM

Science Fiction Inventions by
Publication Date

Science Fiction Inventions by
Publication Date 02/18/2004 08:00 PM
Very nice:

1980 Food Factory - fast food from outer space (from Beyond the Blue Event Horizon by Frederik Pohl)
1980 Watercouch (from Beyond the Blue Event Horizon by Frederik Pohl)
1981 Communications Implant - I think therefore I network (from Oath of Fealty by Larry Niven)
1981 Mole - Underground vehicle (from Oath of Fealty by Larry Niven)
1981 Underground MagLev Train (from Dream Park by Larry Niven (w/S. Barnes))
1981 Arcology - Soleri's dream (from Oath of Fealty by Larry Niven (w/J. Pournelle)

Link (via Ben Hammersley)

My Tokyo Death Cult: CC-licensed science
fiction

My Tokyo Death Cult: CC-licensed science
fiction 07/06/2004 03:41 AM
My Tokyo Death Cult is a science fiction novel released under a CC license by Marc Horne -- haven't read it, but it's got a hell of an opener:

Japanese policemen's guns are small and sort of puny. Except when they are shooting at you. Right now, they are shooting at me and my companion and we are running scared. The Policemen's shots are a little tentative, like someone picking chewing gum out of their hair. In fairness to the police, I should mention that we are in Shinjuku station, the world's busiest. Currently it is occupied by... oh, I don't know... 2.5 Lichtensteins. I am on average 4 inches taller than those around me, and a crucial 4 inches to boot, so as I barge through the crowd, hurting everyone, I must remember to crouch. To help me remember this, I visualize two things: the cloth that hangs in front of every drinking establishment in this country and those photos of JFK's autopsy that my father and I discussed over breakfast in 1977.

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Lessons learnt from OED's science
fiction effort

Lessons learnt from OED's science
fiction effort 05/02/2004 04:26 AM
The editors of the Oxford English Dictionary have begun to post lessons learnt from their first-of-its-kind call for entries of 2001, when it asked science fiction fans to submit sfnal words that were missing from the Dictionary.

Soon we were being deluged with dozens of e-mails a day, containing suggestions, citations, and questions about our work. Mail came from all over the world, and correspondents included several noted SF writers. It took months to fully catch up with the backlog (and the pace has reached more manageable levels). But the results have been spectacular. Some of the entries we have published from the project include Martian, meteor storm, mind-meld (from ‘Star Trek’), moon base, and multiverse, and out-of-sequence entries bot (a robot), filk (a type of song performed by SF fans), and Sturgeon's Law (‘90% of everything is crap’, formulated by writer Theodore Sturgeon)...

Science fiction has several advantages as a subject for this kind of investigation. The vocabulary is largely self-contained; SF terms tend to occur in SF and nowhere else, while, say, political language can be found anywhere and everywhere. The fans are particularly committed, often have linguistic interests, and are computer literate. They may also be more likely to be able to volunteer time than specialists in more academically oriented fields.

Link (Thanks, Diane!)

Michigan TV "journalists" confuse
Asimov's Science Fiction with pr0n

Michigan TV "journalists" confuse
Asimov's Science Fiction with pr0n 02/16/2004 09:21 PM
Brian sez:

The local TV station had been running radio promos for a story about a local school magazine fundraiser that included an "adult" magazine. It's a conservative area, so we figured maybe they accidentally got order forms with Playboy, or maybe the locals were just throwing fits over FHM and Maxxim.

Nope -- the adult magazine in question was Asimov's Science Fiction.

Link (Thanks, Brian!)

Lists of Bests : Phobos Entertainment's
"100 Science Fiction Books You Just Have
to Read"

Lists of Bests : Phobos Entertainment's
"100 Science Fiction Books You Just Have
to Read" 08/18/2004 08:54 PM
Lists of Bests : Phobos Entertainment's "100 Science Fiction Books You Just Have to Read" .. 100 livros de FC que você deveria ler

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Microsoft Research Cambridge Offers Fact
Not Fiction at Science Open Day

Microsoft Research Cambridge Offers Fact
Not Fiction at Science Open Day 06/14/2004 02:57 PM
The machine learning and perception group presents two new projects today. i2i uses dual cameras and stereo imaging techniques to offer a number of enhanced video conferencing capabilities. Founded on new computer algorithms, invented by the i2i team, the technology provides a virtual personal camera operator that tracks the user, panning and zooming in real time to improve the quality of visual communication. In addition, the technology can dynamically replace the background of a scene to make a user appear to be in a different location. i2i also introduces the concept of 3D Emoticons that takes traditional emoticons found in e-mail and messenger products to the next level by allowing three-dimensional objects to be inserted into a scene, such as a light bulb of inspiration that floats above the user's head.

Locus Online: Science Fiction News,
Reviews, Resources, and Perspectives

Locus Online: Science Fiction News,
Reviews, Resources, and Perspectives 01/04/2005 06:18 PM
Locus Magazine Online .. LocusMag .. Locus

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philipkdick.com - The web site devoted
to science fiction visionary Philip K.
Dick

philipkdick.com - The web site devoted
to science fiction visionary Philip K.
Dick 12/03/2003 07:33 AM
philipkdick.com - The web site devoted to science fiction visionary Philip K. Dick .. Dickian .. Dick

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The vocabulary of science fiction -
March 2004 newsletter - Oxford English
Dictionary

The vocabulary of science fiction -
March 2004 newsletter - Oxford English
Dictionary 05/02/2004 08:25 AM
'Where in the multiverse...?': researching the vocabulary of science fiction for the OED" .. OED sci-fi words project .. OED scifi task force

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"Michael Moore of lifting the title from
his classic science-fiction novel
"Fahrenheit 451" without permission"

"Michael Moore of lifting the title from
his classic science-fiction novel
"Fahrenheit 451" without permission" 06/22/2004 04:03 AM

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