Feb. 25th, 2011

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http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?432

They seem to concentrate on collections and anthologies: this is everything I could find in the last decade that is neither a collection nor an anthology.

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http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?432

They seem to concentrate on collections and anthologies: this is everything I could find in the last decade that is neither a collection nor an anthology.

Read more... )
james_davis_nicoll: (Default)
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?432

They seem to concentrate on collections and anthologies: this is everything I could find in the last decade that is neither a collection nor an anthology.

Read more... )
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Everything Is Nice reads and reviews all 67 stories over 990 pages pages of Hartwell and Cramer's The Ascent Of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF.

A further inescapable problem is that Hartwell and Cramer have subtitled their anthology ‘The Evolution of Hard SF’ but they have singularly failed to put forward a clear definition of what hard science fiction actually is.


Wasn't this failure to coherently define also a feature of the Hartwell and Cramer Space Opera anthology?
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Everything Is Nice reads and reviews all 67 stories over 990 pages pages of Hartwell and Cramer's The Ascent Of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF.

A further inescapable problem is that Hartwell and Cramer have subtitled their anthology ‘The Evolution of Hard SF’ but they have singularly failed to put forward a clear definition of what hard science fiction actually is.


Wasn't this failure to coherently define also a feature of the Hartwell and Cramer Space Opera anthology?
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Everything Is Nice reads and reviews all 67 stories over 990 pages pages of Hartwell and Cramer's The Ascent Of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF.

A further inescapable problem is that Hartwell and Cramer have subtitled their anthology ‘The Evolution of Hard SF’ but they have singularly failed to put forward a clear definition of what hard science fiction actually is.


Wasn't this failure to coherently define also a feature of the Hartwell and Cramer Space Opera anthology?
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It seems unlikely given developments so far that fusion generators if they ever appear will be designed (or designable) so they are perpetually, delicately balanced on the edge of a runaway, catastrophic power spike able to level entire cities [1].

More likely what would happen is minor disruptions will abruptly quench the reaction, causing power output to plummet to zero.


1: Now, in the cases where the reaction is controlled with cryogenic superconducting magnets, having the magnet suddenly lose superconductivity can involve a sudden and dramatic release of energy. Ideally the system should be designed to manage this.
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It seems unlikely given developments so far that fusion generators if they ever appear will be designed (or designable) so they are perpetually, delicately balanced on the edge of a runaway, catastrophic power spike able to level entire cities [1].

More likely what would happen is minor disruptions will abruptly quench the reaction, causing power output to plummet to zero.


1: Now, in the cases where the reaction is controlled with cryogenic superconducting magnets, having the magnet suddenly lose superconductivity can involve a sudden and dramatic release of energy. Ideally the system should be designed to manage this.
james_davis_nicoll: (Default)
It seems unlikely given developments so far that fusion generators if they ever appear will be designed (or designable) so they are perpetually, delicately balanced on the edge of a runaway, catastrophic power spike able to level entire cities [1].

More likely what would happen is minor disruptions will abruptly quench the reaction, causing power output to plummet to zero.


1: Now, in the cases where the reaction is controlled with cryogenic superconducting magnets, having the magnet suddenly lose superconductivity can involve a sudden and dramatic release of energy. Ideally the system should be designed to manage this.
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visited 8 states (61.5%)
Create your own visited map of Canada

A: Canada has provinces, not states.

B: New Brunswick is not spelled "New Brinswick".

C: James Bay is not its own territory/province.
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visited 8 states (61.5%)
Create your own visited map of Canada

A: Canada has provinces, not states.

B: New Brunswick is not spelled "New Brinswick".

C: James Bay is not its own territory/province.

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