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Say women, gays, and religious and ethnic minorities are taken off the board as targets a certain sort of politician can take shots at to win voters over, which groups would you expect to be used as convenient scapegoats for all that is wrong with the world? The world being the US?
Jan. 26th, 2013
Modern Masters of Science Fiction f/m
Jan. 26th, 2013 11:50 am
Modern Masters of Science Fiction is devoted to books that survey the work of individual authors who continue to inspire and advance science fiction.
Total Female Male F/T 12 2 10 .17
You'd think since Russ and Le Guin were name-checked in the body of the description they'd have been considered worthy of a monograph but of course you'd be wrong.
Oh Charles Stross No
Jan. 26th, 2013 12:23 pm
The evolutionary pressure selecting for general intelligence (to the extent that general intelligence exists) breaks once a species develops language.
Two questions about Known Space
Jan. 26th, 2013 12:24 pmThe Pak could build generation ships that could last for many thousands of years. Why didn't they go whole hog on the space habitat thing [1]?
Do we know the Pak only explored the galaxy in the direction of the Sun? Because if they also sent expeditions in other directions, by the time humans contact aliens from the far side of the galaxy, those aliens may have had sufficient experience to recognize humans as a variety of Pak, something that can only end in hilarity.
1: I don't have time to go into it but I don't think they actually built the ringworld I think the Outsiders did, as an easily destroyed lab to study Pak and other lifeforms, like the so-called Martians.
And with that I am off to paint sets.
Do we know the Pak only explored the galaxy in the direction of the Sun? Because if they also sent expeditions in other directions, by the time humans contact aliens from the far side of the galaxy, those aliens may have had sufficient experience to recognize humans as a variety of Pak, something that can only end in hilarity.
1: I don't have time to go into it but I don't think they actually built the ringworld I think the Outsiders did, as an easily destroyed lab to study Pak and other lifeforms, like the so-called Martians.
And with that I am off to paint sets.
The Time Machine - Part 1
The Time Machine - Part 2
Aside from making the current day cast American (and changing the present to the present of when this was recorded, I think) this is a reasonably faithful adaptation of the Wells story, in which a man builds a machine, travels to the future and gets entangled in some social issues in the far future. I don't recall the Eloi being quite as bright as they seem to be here; it almost makes one question the morality of their arrangement with the Morlocks.
I couldn't help but think any guy who managed to soaked because he didn't think to bring a raincoat with him on his first time journey and because he doesn't realize he can just nip back to the Now to grab one lacks vision.
Cast:
Joe Morton as the Time Traveler
Timothy Jerome as Herb Wells
Alissa Hunnicutt as Weena
Margaret Albright
Matthew Arkin
John Brady
Jeff David
Ramon de Ocampo
Peter Newman
The Time Machine - Part 2
Aside from making the current day cast American (and changing the present to the present of when this was recorded, I think) this is a reasonably faithful adaptation of the Wells story, in which a man builds a machine, travels to the future and gets entangled in some social issues in the far future. I don't recall the Eloi being quite as bright as they seem to be here; it almost makes one question the morality of their arrangement with the Morlocks.
I couldn't help but think any guy who managed to soaked because he didn't think to bring a raincoat with him on his first time journey and because he doesn't realize he can just nip back to the Now to grab one lacks vision.
Cast:
Joe Morton as the Time Traveler
Timothy Jerome as Herb Wells
Alissa Hunnicutt as Weena
Margaret Albright
Matthew Arkin
John Brady
Jeff David
Ramon de Ocampo
Peter Newman
Seeing Ear Theatre: Black Canoes
Jan. 26th, 2013 11:57 pm Black Canoes
A scientist becomes entangled in time travel and an ouroborosian angle on New World agriculture. It's probably unfair of me to look at this as a What These People Need is a Sacrifical Honkey.
Cast
Claudia Black as Carol Verdane
Anthony Simcoe as Edward
Peter Waldren as Nestor, Hega, and Bashi
Fran Rizzo as Deti
Dan Anthony as Jodu
Alissa Hunnicutt, Rebecca Nice, Fran Rizzo,
Aeryn Sun, and Ka D’Argo as the Jungian Mississipians
A scientist becomes entangled in time travel and an ouroborosian angle on New World agriculture. It's probably unfair of me to look at this as a What These People Need is a Sacrifical Honkey.
Cast
Claudia Black as Carol Verdane
Anthony Simcoe as Edward
Peter Waldren as Nestor, Hega, and Bashi
Fran Rizzo as Deti
Dan Anthony as Jodu
Alissa Hunnicutt, Rebecca Nice, Fran Rizzo,
Aeryn Sun, and Ka D’Argo as the Jungian Mississipians