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Following is my link to my science fiction book at Amazon:
Fabricated by Larry Russwurm Nooz Spun Right
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Category Archives: Science Fiction
A Quiet Place!
There’s one thing that librarians all over the world have had to do every day at work. It’s just never ending. They have to hush their patrons from time to time. Most people need a quiet environment in order to … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Science Fiction
Tagged A Quiet Place, A Quiet Place monsters hunt you down if you make noise, aliens, could a librarian use these monsters?, hushing people, interstellar travel, librarians, librarians have likely fantasized about these monsters, libraries, library patrons, monsters, people could hear themselves think, race of super powerful librarians, the monsters are bullet proof
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The Apocalypse is Boring
With theaters shuttered, almost all TV productions now halted, most sports on hold, libraries closed and you can’t go out to a restaurant or nightclub or live show, it is patently obvious that if COVID-19 is the apocalypse then it … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Politics, Science Fiction
Tagged board games, boring, bullet factories shut, can go online, cannibalism, closed nightclubs, closed restaurants, closed shows, covid-19, era of nonstop entertainment, learning, libraries closed, News programs still on the air, nuclear war, post apocalyptic story telling, sports on hold, the apocalypse, the dead began to rise, the machines rose up, the virus reached pandemic proportions, theaters shuttered, TV productions halted, we miss high stakes fiction, we miss the rivalry of sports
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Superhero Hunt
Mother Earth had seen and “heard” what had gone on in Tail’s attempt to snag Varmint, but Tail had only ended up losing his guns. Mother Earth was very worried that this was the end of Tail. But Varmint kept … Continue reading
Posted in comics, Humour, Science Fiction, Social Science
Tagged adult male body could be Varmint, dance of death, hotwire, infrared tracking, James Bay, Moosonee, Mother Earth, Mother Earth can break into any computer in less than a second, Mother Earth follows Varmint, pepper can interfere with a scent trail, Russian, Russian drone, Russian sub, superhero, superhero hunt, supervillain, Tail, the Kremlin, the Pentagon, thirty second head start for the hunt, Varmint
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New Superhero Duo
“Hello, ladies and gentlemen of the press. I am Tail so I am sure that most of you will recognize me and my super power.” One reporter raised his hand and asked, “What super power? You just look like a … Continue reading
Posted in Cartoon, comics, Humour, Science Fiction
Tagged alive after flattening, climbing powers agility, masked man, missile invisible to radar, monkey like tail, Mother Earth, nuclear warhead, shape shifter, super power of a really strong tail, super powers, super powers of the USA - China - Russia, super small, superhero, supervillain, Tail, the press
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Why I’d Make a Poor Superman
The header of this blog is me from about Hallowe’en in 1975ish in a Superman costume. I was puzzled when my mother, taking pictures of me outside in the costume, told me to pose like I was flying. But I … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Science Fiction, Social Science
Tagged 1975, a big todo to get my mask on right, a big todo to take my mask off, bowing, Clark Kent, glasses, gruesome as beautiful, Hallowe'en, humans- pull yourselves up by your bootstraps, laziness, losing my secret identity, mask, my laziness might have worse consequences, photo alteration software, slitted eyes, superhero, Superman, teletype, the Daily Planet
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Strange as Fiction
Everyone who has seen the movie Alien or any of its sequels knows and remembers the chest bursting scenes. But did you know that this scene isn’t as original as it seems on the surface. That there were a few … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Science Fiction, Sports, Stage and Screen
Tagged alien, baby kick, chest bursting, doctors, Earth, endopiercing, fetus, football kickers, horror, horses, jockeys, kickboxer, killed mothers kidneys, martial artists, pregnant women, ribbed walls, soft walls, stomach bursting, womb
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What Can I Say About Reverse Skating?
To my mind, my namesake, science fiction writer Larry Niven, is the king of science fiction ideas. Not only are some of his ideas great, but he has a large amount of them. In the short story, “What Can You … Continue reading
Posted in Science Fiction, Wee Bit O' Humour, Writing
Tagged AI robots, dangerous business, double the blade tracks, humans are too fragile, ideas, interesting conjectures, Larry Niven, new sports injury that doesn't displace humans, no slippage might injure the suit of armour skater, perpendicular blades so you can stop, reverse skating, science fiction, strap blocks of ice to feet and skate on blade tracks, suit of armor, suit of ice, suit of segmented ice, the king of science fiction ideas, turns and jumps, What Can You Say About Chocolate Covered Manholes?
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Eat $#!+ and Live
No this title is not an example of a sentence that is totally changed with the insertion of commas. It is uncomfortable because it needs to be. For a very long time scientists have dreamt of resurrecting the woolly mammoths. … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, History, Science, Science Fiction, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged arctic, artificial womb, baby elephants must eat their mother's scat, ban ivory, cloning, de-extinction, DNA, elephants, elephants are being killed faster than they can reproduce, gene splicing, gut flora, Ice Age Park, Indian elephant, ivory, mammoths, Panda eats shoots and leaves, petitions to save elephants, swear words, woolly mammoths
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Duke Minus
The Midas touch is the story of King Midas and how he got his wish for everything he touched to be turned to gold. This made Midas happy until he realized he would starve to death because he couldn’t eat … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Science Fiction, Writing
Tagged change things to silver, creature that could eat anything at all, Dionysius, divorce the Queen, Duke Minus, eats Minus and turns him into dukie, golden robot, kept Midas touch except for food and drink, King Midas, Midas would starve to death, Milos touch, nannies could raise babies, Prince Milos, silver lining, silver robot, the gold price would plummet because of Midas, the Midas touch, the Minus touch, turn things to dookie
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