Question inspired by the person I saw riding pillion on a motorcycle
In a motorbike accident, how much good is a standard bicycle helmet going to do?
2012-07-29
Mindwebs: The Run
Mindwebs: The Run
Not Christopher Priest's first short story but among his first short stories. This reminded me of what the last section of Canticle For Leibowitz would have been like if instead of being about religion in the context of apocalypse, it had been one of those teenagers: threat or menace movies. The behavior of the faceless mob of nihilistic teens parallels the behavior of the world in general.
Judith Merril liked this enough to collect it for England Swings SF.
Not Christopher Priest's first short story but among his first short stories. This reminded me of what the last section of Canticle For Leibowitz would have been like if instead of being about religion in the context of apocalypse, it had been one of those teenagers: threat or menace movies. The behavior of the faceless mob of nihilistic teens parallels the behavior of the world in general.
Judith Merril liked this enough to collect it for England Swings SF.
Mindwebs: The Unremembered
Mindwebs: The Unremembered
An ancient man, life extended through a process dependent on a rare and apparently non-renewable resource, is confronted with his own mortality.
You know how cranky 50-year-olds can get? 200+-year-olds are worse.
An ancient man, life extended through a process dependent on a rare and apparently non-renewable resource, is confronted with his own mortality.
You know how cranky 50-year-olds can get? 200+-year-olds are worse.
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Mindwebs: This is the Star/The Gift
Mindwebs: This is the Star/The Gift
This begins with Clarke's Hugo-winning "The Star", which for some reason is called "This is the Star" in this version.
Do either type I or type II supernovae produce white dwarfs?
A very rough estimate of the insolation on that planet is something like 10^17 J/m^2 or about the amount of light that falls on Earth over about three million years. I'm impressed anything survived. Kudos to the builders.
The narrator is competent but whoever picked the lead-in music, which constitutes a massive spoiler, should be berated.
Because The Gift is short, it is accompanied by some blatant filler in the form of music and then a minor Ray Bradbury story about a young boy at Christmas. The detail that most struck me was the parents' expectation that they would be allowed to take and use candles on a space ship.
I can't help but suspect if the problem was a matter of ounces, they could have found something aside from the gift to leave behind. Wasn't there a young girl they could have tossed out an airlock?
Sentimental treacle of the sort Bradbury based much of his career on.
This begins with Clarke's Hugo-winning "The Star", which for some reason is called "This is the Star" in this version.
Do either type I or type II supernovae produce white dwarfs?
A very rough estimate of the insolation on that planet is something like 10^17 J/m^2 or about the amount of light that falls on Earth over about three million years. I'm impressed anything survived. Kudos to the builders.
The narrator is competent but whoever picked the lead-in music, which constitutes a massive spoiler, should be berated.
Because The Gift is short, it is accompanied by some blatant filler in the form of music and then a minor Ray Bradbury story about a young boy at Christmas. The detail that most struck me was the parents' expectation that they would be allowed to take and use candles on a space ship.
I can't help but suspect if the problem was a matter of ounces, they could have found something aside from the gift to leave behind. Wasn't there a young girl they could have tossed out an airlock?
Sentimental treacle of the sort Bradbury based much of his career on.
Where link:james-nicoll.livejournal.com can lead one
You know who is really POed over Obama winning?
Disappointed Hillary Clinton supporters.
An alternate title for this could have been indistinguishable from teabaggers.
Disappointed Hillary Clinton supporters.
An alternate title for this could have been indistinguishable from teabaggers.
Curse my lack of googling skills
I seem to recall seeing a sexual harassment bingo card on LJ but I cannot find it. Pointers?