The Science Fiction Book Club Reviews Revisited: 1964

List courtesy of Andrew Wheeler
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Native Appropriations' "I saw The Lone Ranger so you don’t have to"

It’s been 12 hours since I saw The Lone Ranger, and I still have the darn William Tell Overture stuck in my head. I wonder how long that lasts. It’s like waking up with a Tonto hangover, I guess. I have so many thoughts on this film, and only maybe one of them is good. But I think we need to start off with this: The Lone Ranger is just a bad movie. It’s 2.5 hours of a film with an identity crisis, not knowing if it’s supposed to be funny, campy, dramatic, “authentic,” or what. At points it was very hard to separate the stereotypical and hurtful from the bad script, bad editing, and bad character development of the movie itself.

(5099) Iainbanks

Discovered at La Silla on 1985-02-16 by H. Debehogne.
(5099) Iainbanks = 1985 DY1

Iain M. Banks (1954-2013) was a Scottish writer best known for the Culture series of science fiction novels; he also wrote fiction as Iain Banks. An evangelical atheist and lover of whisky, he scorned social media and enjoyed writing music. He was an extra in Monty Python & The Holy Grail. [Ref: Minor Planet Circ. 84151]
Orbit

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid

Military missile turned in during B.C. gun amnesty

While the officers proceeded with caution, MacDonald said the homeowner wasn't worried about the missile, saying that had been in his home for more than 10 years.

"He tried to provide some comfort by saying he didn't think it was live because he had dropped it several times and nothing had happened."

To the Americans, Happy 4th

One silent tear

How sad it is to see a man reach out, only to be rejected