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Following is my link to my science fiction book at Amazon:
Fabricated by Larry Russwurm Nooz Spun Right
Nooz Spun Right This is the link to the more serious blog of Larry Russwurm. If there is not a post on “The Many Rants” in any given week, check here for a serious post.
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Category Archives: Science Fiction
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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Super Plan of the Diamond Giants
Since 1938 the diamond mining giants have been running scared. That date is important because it marks the 1st time that Superman appeared on the scene. Soon after, it was revealed that Superman had this trick of squeezing coal just … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Science, Science Fiction
Tagged 1938, artificial diamonds, artificial diamonds are cheaper, De Beers tried to be a premium diamond brand, diamond mining giants, even De Beers just entered the artificial diamond market, natural diamonds, squeezing coal into diamonds, Superman, Superman could flood the diamond market, windows of diamond, with good enough equipment you can tell mined diamonds from artificial ones
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Time Traveling Like an Animal
Certain earth animals can time travel two different ways. They are both methods of what I call ignorant time travel. If you can somehow ignore time’s ordinary passage and “wake up” in the future – that is ignorant time travel. … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Science Fiction, Wry
Tagged animals, bears, blood freezes first, can now fly like animals, corpsicles, could skip winter in future, cryogenics, experimenting on humans, freezing and thawing, Futurama, hibernater and human hybrid, hibernation, human and wood frog hybrid, ignorant time travel, Larry Niven, liver fills cells with glucose, science fiction authors, suspended animation, time travel, time travel to the future only, tropes, water sucked out of cells, wood frogs
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Why We Won’t Find Aliens by SETI
Those aliens, precisely because they are intelligent, are in hiding, of course. What else would you do with the human race and its addiction to violence? Transmitting higher technology to us just sounds insane. We are violent when we are … Continue reading
Posted in Humourless, Science, Science Fiction, Wry
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More Anecdotal Proof of Erich von Daniken
Does anyone remember my pseudo or alien accent post from many years ago? Here is a link. In it I showed (via Youtube) my alien accent that contains a smacked M (like a kiss), clicked N and a flatulated (my … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Language, Pseudo Science, Science, Science Fiction
Tagged alien accent, alien collusion when designing our alphabet, Chariots of the Gods, clicked n, clip clopped L, consecutive consonants in alphabet, Erich von Daniken, flatulated p, right at the centre of our alphabet, smacked m
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