Posted in Science Fiction, tagged Robert A. Heinlein, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls on May 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Reviewing books is a touchy subject. On one side of the coin, publicly calling someone’s creative baby ugly is just a mean thing to do. Flipping the coin over reveals the whole needy world of authors begging for any kind of press they can get. I’ve always dreamed of writing a book and getting published [...]
Posted in Science Fiction, tagged faster than light travel, generation ship, relativity, Robert A. Heinlein, slower than light travel on April 28, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Science fiction has always entertained the idea that travel between the stars would be no more arduous than travel between countries around the world today. Because science fiction is basically adventure fiction, rocketing between Star A and Star B isn’t very exciting plotwise, so writers long ago imagined theoretical faster-than-light drives. Anyone who has studied [...]
Posted in Science Fiction on April 20, 2008 | 11 Comments »
What I’m really asking: Is it time to make another movie version of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Blade Runner was a masterpiece film adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s masterpiece novel, but it was just one interpretation of a very complex story. I first read the novel in 1968 when I discovered it on [...]
Posted in Audio Books, Science Fiction on April 3, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Years ago when I first started listening to audio books I felt there wasn’t much available in the way of great science fiction. Recorded Books did have a lot of good Sci-Fi titles, but they weren’t easy to get. This week I noticed many of those Recorded Books titles have come to Audible, and many [...]
Posted in Science Fiction on March 25, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I have already worked out a way to define the Classics of Science Fiction by collecting lists from science fiction fans and critics, but this morning I got to wondering which science fiction books, if any, are recognized as classics by people who normally do not read science fiction. Over the years I’ve encountered a [...]
Posted in Robots, Science Fiction on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Of all the great ideas of science fiction our society seems to be working the fastest towards making stories about robots come true. How soon will it be before we have a Commander Data? We are still in the early stages of engineering a SF robot but yesterday I saw a film that made me [...]
Posted in Battle of the Sexes, Men and Women, Science Fiction on March 16, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Awhile back I wrote “What is Your Science Fiction Fantasy?” and I had a couple long and well thought out replies from my blogger friend Carl V of Stainless Steel Droppings that make me want to return to this subject. I’ve been a life-long science fiction fan, and my adolescence was filled with fantasies of [...]
Posted in Science Fiction on March 8, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I just finished reading Marsbound by Joe Haldeman as a serial in Analog SF. The book won’t be published until August but all parts of the serial can be found at Fictionwise.com. I got to study with Joe Haldeman and his wife Gay for a week in 2002 when I attended the Clarion West Writer’s [...]
Posted in Science Fiction on March 8, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I love science fiction short stories so it’s a pleasure to discover BestScienceFictionStories.com. And yesterday Rusty posts his list of “The 10 Best Web Sites for Free Online Science Fiction Stories.” Even though the print magazines are losing subscribers short stories are finding new venues on the web. This site is slowly recognizing and reviewing [...]
Posted in Fiction, Philosophy, Science Fiction on March 6, 2008 | 9 Comments »
What is your personal science fiction fantasy? Let’s say you die and wake up in front of a superior being and he/she/it tells you to pick your next life, what would it be? You can pick anything from reality, your own imagination or from any fictional world you’ve encountered. It’s a big multiverse out there [...]
