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- The Articler
- In the Presence of Dentyne
- The Space Yoyo
- Pieing Lou Ferrigno
- Light at the End of the World
- H. G. Wells, the Teenage Sidekick of the Father of Science Fiction
- The Right is Right, But the Left is More Right: A Mathematical Proof
- The Ads About Nothing
- Newfoundland Houndstooth
Category Archives: Science Fiction
Mountaineers in Space
The current mountain climber’s lament is that it sure is hard to make a name for yourself these days. That’s been true since Sir Edmund Hillary first climbed Everest in 1953. Note: I remembered Hillary’s name but the more recent … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, History, Humour, Science, Science Fiction
Tagged Bass, Deathwatch 2023, immortality, K2, Kammerlander, Mars, Mars One, Messner, Mons Huygens, Morrow, Mount Everest, mountain climber, mountaineer, Olympus Mons, seven continents, Seven Second Summits, Seven Summits challenge, Sir Edmund Hilary, The Moon
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The Space Yoyo
I’m sure that many of you have heard of the space elevator. That is where an incredibly strong and light ribbon is strung from geosynchronous orbit down to the surface of earth and simultaneously the ribbon extends further out from … Continue reading
Light at the End of the World
I’ve lived through at least three possible ends of the world. And instead of being snuffed out, I’ve found that instead humanity ends up being better off for it. I am not going to restate that ‘whatever doesn’t kill me … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Science Fiction, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged 1900s/2000s boundary, 2112, doomsday, end of the Mayan calendar, end of the world, fast as light travel possible, grand tour of the outer solar system, gravity 'slingshot' effect, great dark spot, Higgs boson, Jupiter, Large Hadron Collider, Neptune, planets on same side of sun, possible computer glitch, preparedness, Preppers, Saturn, the Jupiter Effect, Uranus, Voyager I, Voyager II, Y2K
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H. G. Wells, the Teenage Sidekick of the Father of Science Fiction
I saw Robert J. Sawyer give a lecture on TV Ontario a couple weeks ago. In it, he called Mary Shelley the progenitor of science fiction. No arguments there. He also said the spur of this entire article; he called … Continue reading
C’mon, High School Teachers, Teach Sensawunda
For this post, I was just going to bitch that the fiction gatekeepers in high school, the teachers, seem to ignore genre fiction. But then I thought back to my education more carefully and realized that grade 11 was a … Continue reading
Posted in Science Fiction, SF Criticism, Wee Bit O' Humour, Writing
Tagged 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea, Asimov, Bradbury, Dystopia, Fahrenheit 451, genre fiction, H.G. Wells, Hari Seldon, high school english teachers, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne, Larry Niven, literature, optimism, Orwell, pessimism, psychohistory, Ringworld, science fiction, sensawunda, sense of wonder, The Foundation Series, Utopia
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The Earning Dead
Copyright monopolies vary widely from place to place on this Earth. But the vast majority of countries offer these monopolies and I would say that the United States system of life of the artist plus 70 years (it’s actually more … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Humour, Politics, Science Fiction, Writing
Tagged Asimov, clawing back to life, conservative bonanza, copyright, copyright monopolies, Isaac Asimov, life plus 70 years, marriage 70 years beyond death, progressive trouble, propagating the dead, the earning dead, voting while dead
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All the World’s a Factory Floor
All the world’s a factory floor, and all the men and women merely robots. They don’t think they’re robots, nay they are far superior, For they have emotions, the thing that separates man from machine. If they are sad then … Continue reading
Someone Forgot His Oath This Morning
The Green Lantern plummeted out of the sky quickly. Suddenly his ring made a giant green bouncy castle and that is where he landed. The gathered scientists just coughed and kicked stones, waiting for the superhero to stop bouncing. Finally … Continue reading
Being Negative About Positronic
Isaac Asimov filled his robots with positronic brains. Positronic was largely a buzz word. The recently discovered (1940′s) positron inspired the name. Asimov may have known more. Like for instance the positron was the antimatter version of the electron. So … Continue reading
Confessions of the Japan Thief
It was after being locked up for theft by Batman in Gotham City that I heard him speaking to Commissioner Gordon. I don’t know why Batman was being confessional but he said to the Commissioner, “You know Superman has no … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Humour, Science Fiction
Tagged Batman, Commisioner Gordon, Gotham City, Japan Thief, Metropolis, red sun, rising sun, setting sun, Sunset Burglar, Superman, Superman is an alien
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