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Ramblings Thoughts to Consider | Book Reviews | Essays Thoughts to ConsiderFuture Blind (Why Science Fiction Can't Predict the Future)300 years, when you think of it, is not a long time, even in human terms. Go back just 3 centuries and Blackbeard the pirate was in full career. Queen Anne ruled as monarch of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Shakespeare had already been dead for nearly a hundred years, and, in the last half of the 18th century, Washington crossed the Delaware. But the key question is this: in their wildest dreams, could any of them, ever, have imagined us at all? Read more... Earth "Ueber Allen" or Earthman's BurdenWhere are the aliens? I don't mean that as an idle interrogative from a long-time science fiction fan, but seriously - where the hell are they? Perhaps intelligent life is exceedingly rare. In fact, in the history of the universe, it hasn't happened yet. Read more... Art by Computers for ComputersHands and eyes, brains and... imagination, it's unlikely that the most brilliant and driven among us will stop before they have endowed our machines with the subtle foundations of insight and artistic creation. Read more...
Books I'm Reading, Books You Should Too
Madwand, by Roger Zelazny. Madwand is a short novel by Roger Zelazny, and while not one of Mr. Zelazny’s best, it remains an entertaining fantasy about a young rogue magician whose untrained powers make him a "madwand." City, by Clifford D. Simak. In the distant future, even the word "Man" has been forgotten by the Brotherhood of Beasts, and the last City holds only the dreamers of eternity. Hungry, by Alethea Eason. Deborah is an articulate, self-conscious sixth grader, who is also very Hungry. She is part of an invading species that will soon count on mankind as its main food supply. Child of a Rainless Year, by Jane Lindskold. Mira Fenn was born in a year without rain, to woman of mysterious power, in a house at the crossroads of time. She the Child of a Rainless Year. Time of the Great Freeze, by Robert Silverberg. In the year 2600 it is the Time of the Great Freeze. The world lies beneath miles of ice, and only a few men dare venture out from the long buried city of New York. Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys. An alien death machine is found on the far side of the moon, and one man must die over and over again before the slightest of its secrets is revealed in Rogue Moon. Maia, by Richard Adams. In the fictional Beklan Empire, before the dawn of history, a 15 year old girl is sold into sexual slavery. Will Maia survive to become the Sacred Queen? Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls, by Jane Lindskold. Sarah possesses wild talents, including the ability to speak with objects about what they know. But what makes her a Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls? The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman. Envisioning Earth without man. What exactly would things be like in The World Without Us? Thoughts to Disagree With
End of the World. End time possibilities include asteroid collision, runaway nano-technology, and a man-made black hole coming loose from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Of course we could always end up just poisoning ourselves, either to death or to sterility. What's your favorite End of the World? Remembering Algis Budrys. Algis Budrys passed away on June 9, 2008 at the age of 77. It was a cruel turn of fate and much too soon, but Algis had already secured a happy ending for his life, something worthy of reflecting upon in remembrance.
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