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When Super-Apes Attack (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
The current anniversary of 'Murder on the Orient Express' (cue tunnel noise and whistle scream) reminds me that I am occasionally conerned that Agatha Christie (be her merits what they may)'s posthumous reputation (however well-deserved) so loomingly overshadows that of Dorothy L Sayers. I'm not saying people shouldn't be reading AC, but shouldn't DLS really take priority? I underrstand that in her...
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Random Jottings (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Here's a little insight into how attitudes towards scientific fraud have changed since I was a boy. In 1957 Isaac Asimov was still a professor of bio-chemistry at Boston University Medical School. His science fiction was popular, but SF was then a marginal genre that wouldn't support a man with...
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Why Homeschool (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
From A.Word . A.Day : The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. - Isaac Asimov , scientist and writer (1920-1992) I would go even farther. The saddest aspect of life is that we are losing wisdom that previous generations took for granted. ---------- Technorati tags : Knowledge , Wisdom , Isaac Asimov
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Dictionary Quotes (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
“I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.” Isaac Asimov quotes
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Line Out (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The drunks were out for night two at Showbox-Market but it didn’t take away from the solidity of the music. Built to Spill always seem on. Composed and on. A better vantage point was up by the rear bar, away from the frolicking frat-townish weedly boister-partiers. The band was tight and clean in their presentment of the songs. Tempo changes hit on a dime. Doug Martsch hung from the mobile of...
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
An anonymous reader writes "recombu.com has an article examining ten things mobile phones will make obsolete, including phone booths, wristwatches and handheld games consoles. It's interesting to see how many devices have been absorbed into mobile phone technology and it begs the question, are we better off having everything in one device? The author poignantly concludes that while it's great...
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Planet-x.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
In the 1940s, renowned science fiction writer Isaac Asimov began writing a trilogy of novels called the Foundation Series. Asimov's protagonist discovers and develops “psychohistory,” a mathematical science that statistically predicts ...
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MilkandCookies.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Dr Asimov describes the three laws of robotics. First Law: A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Second Law: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. Third Law: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second...
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Beam Me Up - Science & Science Fiction news (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Have you ever see this? Its the Clone Song rumor has it that it was written by the good doctor himself. Found a copy....Wonder if John could voice this? lolThe Clone Song By: Isaac Asimov Tune: Home On The Range Oh, give me a clone Of my own flesh and bone With its Y chromosome changed to X. And after it's grown, Then my own little clone Will be of the opposite sex. Clone, clone of my own,
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The Eternal Golden Braid (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
An Edge In His Voice Harlan Ellison; An Edge In My Voice (E-Reads Ltd.; 2008; cover by Leo and Diane Dillon). I wasn't expecting much out of this collection of Ellison's essays that originally appeared in the late Future Life magazine (sister, more serious sister when it started out, to Starlog ) before moving into other venues. After all, I figured that they probably had aged and I would be scratching...
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'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?' (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
As I’ve mentioned in responding to comments on my post on Saturday, I share the view that the links between crime fiction and science fiction are very strong. A long list of the fine writers who have worked in both genres includes Isaac Asimov, John Sladek, Fredric Brown, and John Wyndham (though Wyndham seems to have given up on detective fiction once the Golden Age had passed.) I was reminded...
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Oil Is Mastery (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
According to Poseidonius, one of the most careful and accurate observers and scholars in world history, the discovery of the atom predates Leucippus and Democritus and goes back to even before Trojan times. "The Sidonians, according to tradition, are skilled in many beautiful arts, as the poet [Homer] also points out; and besides this they are philosophers in the sciences of astronomy and arithmetic,...
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Mad Hatter's Bookshelf & Book Review (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
This is a little late, but the news have been chafing me a bit. In a surprising move Isaac Asimov's estate has authorized a trilogy of new I, Robot Universe books. This is shocking because Asimov had plenty of time to add to that Universe if he so desired considering the last book in the series was written about a decade before he passed away and he was prolific till the end. Suffice it to say if he...
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fairyhedgehog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
My story is emerging as a Diana Wynne-Jones/Isaac Asimov fan fiction mishmash. I'm amazed I haven't been approached by a major publisher yet but maybe I need to add a few ninjas first.
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Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Some good stuff in this issue, such as an awesome color ad for the Infocom Hitchhiker's Guide game (not pictured because Sumana has the camera) and a two-page spread for Telarium's game adaptations of SF classics . I got sidetracked talking about the ads, but there are a couple good stories here as well. The best one is "The White Box" by Rom Chilson and Lynette Meserole, which, like Qubit...
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