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Category Archives: Science Fiction
Mmmm Zombies
Zombies have us terrified with their brain eating ways. But we are humans. We always turn the tables on the predator no matter how fearsome they might be. Since zombies are much like us, I think that we must turn … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Pseudo Science, Science Fiction
Tagged better efficiency for long space trip, brain eating, defecate remains, flame thrower, flame throwers to disable and cook, food recycling, how zombies colonized space, incantations, six feet under ground, water recycling, zombie meat is the greenest of all foods, zombies
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One Thing All the SF Hollow Earths Get Wrong
Hollow Earths have been a part of science fiction ever since Jules Verne penned Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Edgar Rice Burroughs followed with his Pelucidar and Mike Grell’s comic series The Warlord occurred in a hollow earth, … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Humour, Science, Science Fiction, Writing
Tagged cannons and mortars can reposition central mini star, Edgar Rice Borroughs, expanation for volcanoes and earthquakes on the outside of hollow earth, hollow earths, Icarus, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne, Mike Grell, mini star at interior of hollow earth, Newton proved there is no gravity inside a hollow sphere, Newton's 3rd Law, Newton's law of gravity, Pelucidar, SF keeps insisting that gravity is directed outwards from inner edge of hollow shell, The Warlord
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Doctors Over Lawyers
In Canada the length of copyright term for an author is the life of the author plus 50 years. I am going to assume this is the same term if the author sells the copyright to a corporation. If that … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Politics, Science, Science Fiction, Writing
Tagged Angelina Jolie, author can sell their copyright in hopes of having their life extended by a corporation, Canada, copyright law, cryogenics, extending copyright, good for the author, how about a blanket ban on increasing copyright term, human hibernation, ignorant time travel, interstellar travel, J. K. Rowling, support doctors and PhDs instead of lawyers, suspended animation, time dilation
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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, death watch, 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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