Clarkesworld Podcast October 2010: Laying the Ghost (Eric Brown)

Laying the Ghost (Eric Brown)

A star-ship captain specializing in salvage agrees to deliver a war veteran to her former home-world, now lost to enigmatic aliens. What her purpose is not clear to the captain but the promise of money is too tempting to ignore.

Don't see a lot of Amish in SF. I think we're going to have to classify this one as 'lapsed'.

Clarkesworld Podcast October 2010: Salvaging Gods (Jacques Barcia)

Salvaging Gods (Jacques Barcia)

In a world where machine-gods are standard technology, a young girl kit-bashes a particularly powerful one. It takes surprisingly little time even taking into account that this is a short story for her to go from inadvertently raising the dead to assuming the role of Popess. But these things are always temporary so the question is 'what form will the fall take?'

This is explicitly a world where tomorrow is unevenly distributed but I have to wonder what sort of scorch marks talented people like the girl have left on the world. Are we talking the back-story to Shinsekai Yori sort of thing?

Today on The Current

Diane Francis argues that it would be best for Canada to abandon our health care system, to adopt a native relations system even more brutal than the one we have, and embrace a sky-rocketing Gini Coefficient while inextricably tying ourselves to an unstable nation forever flirting with government shut-down and default.

On balance, I am against this. Their crazification factor outnumbers Canada more than two to one.

She also advocates policies known have contributed to gendercide in China.

As sf fans moan because reality is not like a Heinlein novel

A space-craft docks with a space-station.

"[ISS] Timelapse of Cygnus Arrival, Capture & Berthing to ISS" (Watch on YouTube)

Via The Dragon's Tales

So why

Am I now seeing novels about generation ships actually reaching their destinations? Do the authors not understand how generation ship stories are supposed to work?

Inspired by a comment by Britney Spears

[Poll #1936465]

Kate Elliott's The Status Quo Does Not Need World Building

The imagination is not context-less.

The Science Fiction Book Club Reviews Revisited: 1990 (second quarter)

Lists courtesy of Andrew Wheeler.

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