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Sloth arms look strong. Also, suddenly I am curious about sloth grooming habits and how much fine motor control they have.
Apr. 18th, 2013
The Martian Death March
A young boy is caught up in a religious nut's quest to help the Martian natives return to their homeland; the majority of human settlers oppose this and express their disapproval with heavy weapons fire. Thousands set out from the reservation; hundreds are left by the end of the march.
This is a fairly pointed commentary on settler/native american relations and the first time I ran into this (on X Minus One) I was a bit surprised to see it in a story of this vintage.
A young boy is caught up in a religious nut's quest to help the Martian natives return to their homeland; the majority of human settlers oppose this and express their disapproval with heavy weapons fire. Thousands set out from the reservation; hundreds are left by the end of the march.
This is a fairly pointed commentary on settler/native american relations and the first time I ran into this (on X Minus One) I was a bit surprised to see it in a story of this vintage.
The Last Objective
Driven underground by the radiation of the final war, the survivors of the two factions struggle to prevail in the great war through the use of artificial men and weapons of mass destruction; both prove entirely too successful
Driven underground by the radiation of the final war, the survivors of the two factions struggle to prevail in the great war through the use of artificial men and weapons of mass destruction; both prove entirely too successful
Ever attacked a t-rex with a durian fruit.
Action risks feeding the Doom Pool (which is used by the antagonists) therefore to minimize the odds against them PCs should do as little as possible. I think the newspaper comic strip Spider-Man must be using MHRPG.
(No link for this episode that I can see).
A young man is shown the forgotten truth about his world, that it is a giant star ship wandering through interstellar space. He does his best to help bring peace between Muties (mutant descendants of mutineers) and crew but this ends badly.
I'm very curious why Lefferts gave this the downer ending he did and why he changed details like the nature of Joe-Jim's mutation.
A young man is shown the forgotten truth about his world, that it is a giant star ship wandering through interstellar space. He does his best to help bring peace between Muties (mutant descendants of mutineers) and crew but this ends badly.
I'm very curious why Lefferts gave this the downer ending he did and why he changed details like the nature of Joe-Jim's mutation.
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might be suitable for liquid water.
A Pebble in the Sky
In a galaxy where the twenty million inhabitants of Earth are considered the lowest vermin, Imperial archaeologist Arvarden finds himself the one man in a position to oppose a terroristic and genocidal attack by Earth fanatics on the two hundred million worlds of the civilized galaxy.
So, the two striking differences between this and the novel of the same name are ( Read more... )
In a galaxy where the twenty million inhabitants of Earth are considered the lowest vermin, Imperial archaeologist Arvarden finds himself the one man in a position to oppose a terroristic and genocidal attack by Earth fanatics on the two hundred million worlds of the civilized galaxy.
So, the two striking differences between this and the novel of the same name are ( Read more... )
Dimension X: Nightmare (George Lefferts)
Apr. 18th, 2013 11:32 pmNightmare
A nebbish attempts to warn the world of the coming Machine Uprising, only to be judged insane and locked away.
It's entirely possible that he really is completely nuts and that all of his evidence is the creation of a demented mind.
A nebbish attempts to warn the world of the coming Machine Uprising, only to be judged insane and locked away.
It's entirely possible that he really is completely nuts and that all of his evidence is the creation of a demented mind.
Finalists for Lifeboat to the Stars f/m
Apr. 18th, 2013 11:51 pm
The finalists are:
Anderson, Kevin J. and Steve Savile. Tau Ceti. Arc Manor, 2011.
Benford, Gregory and Larry Niven. Bowl of Heaven. Tor, 2012.
Bishop, Michael. “Twenty Lights to `The Land of Snow’” from the anthology Going Interstellar, Baen, 2012.
Bova, Ben. “A Country for Old Men” from the anthology Going Interstellar, Baen, 2012.
McDevitt, Jack. “Lucy” from the anthology Going Interstellar, Baen, 2012.
Reynolds, Alastair. Blue Remembered Earth. Ace, 2012.
Santos, Domingo (translated by Stanley Schmidt). “The First Day of Eternity.” Analog, January-February 2011.
I had no idea Schmidt was multilingual.
Total Female Male F/T 7 0 7 0
Hmmm.
Author Age Anderson 51 Benford 72 Bishop 68 Bova 81 McDevitt 78 Niven 74 Reynolds 47 Santos 71 Savile 43 Average 65