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Be Careful Little Mars
Fragile is a classic album by the band Yes and illustrated by Roger Dean. The front of this cover has an idyllic looking miniature world with a “wooden” spaceship with jagged edges and curved wings flying above and is pictured … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Music, Politics, Science Fiction
Tagged bomb, China, classic albums, Earth, Fragile, Mars, MAVEN, moorglade mover, NASA, rover, Russia, space probe, spaceship with jagged edges and curved wings, Star Trek : TNG, third eye death stare, USA, Viking, Viking landed in 1976, what if NASA sent an unsterilized probe to Mars, Yes
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Shhhhh, Prince Harry
Prince Harry just let loose the thinking in the current British royal family. As it turns out, no one wants to be king but they are willing to do it anyway, out of some warped sense of duty. Aren’t we … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, History, Humour, Politics
Tagged British royal family, line of succession and how it changes, long con, middle children and youngest siblings have lots to complain about in royal family, no one wants to be king, Prince Charles, Prince George, Prince Harry, Prince William, Princess Charlotte, proper bloodline, QE II, save your life Prince Harry
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Dysing Dystopias II
Dystopias can largely be thought of as a series of setbacks for the protaganist, none of which are significantly overcome. This is the problem of the dystopia for me. Setbacks can be thought of as the machinery of plot. The … Continue reading
Posted in Science Fiction, SF Criticism, Wee Bit O' Humour, Writing
Tagged can lose to setbacks, can overcome setbacks, can turn a novella to a novel with more setbacks, Dystopia, machinery of plot, ministry of ongoing war, ministry of peace, new solutions are found in more positive fiction, protaganist, sensawunda, sensawunda science fiction, setbacks, writing dystopias is easier than writing more positive fiction
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Dysing Dystopias I
I don’t like dystopias in science fiction although I see how popular some of them are. I am young enough to have taken science fiction books (that’s right plural) in some of my English classes. I was disappointed with every … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Politics, Science Fiction, SF Criticism, Writing
Tagged 1984, Cory Doctorow, Donald Trump, dystopias, English class, Handmaid's Tale, inciting to legislate badly, Little Brother, lobbyists, Oops I feel a dystopia coming on, politicians use dystopias as a guidebook, science fiction, sensawunda, the English establishment, UK
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Did Ancient Species Go Extinct or Did They Have a More Honourable Group Suicide?
Can some species reliably see the future? Well obviously human beings can’t as noted by their laughable track record in this endeavour (see most of science fiction). But perhaps, just perhaps, other species can. They might see the growth of … Continue reading
My Plan to Counterfeit and Never Get Caught
Since 1967, it is my belief that there are 6 852 different coins in circulation in Canada and we are somehow supposed to recognize them all as legal tender. So, yes, I intend to counterfeit coins. In 1967, it was … Continue reading
Posted in History, Humour, Politics
Tagged 1967, 1973 quarter honouring the mounties, 2017, Canada, Canada's centennial, Canada's sesquicentennial, change, coins, fake coin ought to celebrate something plausible yet funny, legal tender, loonies, no legal tender is made of paper anymore, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, toonies, which coin is the most profitable for the government to make?, Wikipedia
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The Down Side to Kirk’s Good Ol’ Boxing
The first thing I’d like to say about boxing aliens is that human beings are likely mediocre fighters. So half of all alien species are stronger than us just like half of all alien species are weaker than us. For … Continue reading
Creep Creep
Can we all just agree that marketers are overwhelmingly creeps? It seems the lot are driven to exaggerations and hyperbole in the effort to sell us anything at all. Today I’d like to talk about the exaggerations in “technical” fields. … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Pseudo Science, Science
Tagged artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence is still far in the future, Back to the Future, exaggerations, hoverboard, hoverboards don't hover, I'm offended as a science fiction author, marketers, maybe we should sue, remote control battles, remote control wars, robot battles, robot wars
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