Do NOT miss this one! Check Anonymous Rex for details. The SciFi Channel will be airing it at the beginning of November, and I am looking forward to see how well they translated the first book in the series into TV mode. Please note, by First Book I mean the Prequil, Casual Rex. If they get good enough numbers in the ratings, I am hoping they continue through the series, and make more of these. The closest thing I have found to a Home Page for the author (the same Eric Garcia who wrote Matchstick Men) is a rather disappointing Amazon front; if anyone knows where his true home page lives, please send me the link! The Interview he did at the MysteryOne web sight is worth a visit, and has convinced me I need to go out and get a copy of his AudioBook version, if only to hear him sing! LOL… Too bad the link they list for him there goes to one of those now-owned-by-a-domain-name-seller companies.
Terrestrial Human
I love hitting Cons (Science Fiction Conventions) for a lot of reasons; I will list a few of them here, and look forward to hearing from you about your reasons you either love or hate them. But since I live on the East Coast, the next Con I will be going to is the Galaxy Con II. Good guests, both actors and authors; the pricing on this one looks like a typical Corp buying into the Con moneywagon, unfortunately. With luck, the folks who actually attend will be real people!
Oh, yeah, the reasons I love going to Cons. Here are a few of them; what are yours?
1) Meeting lots of folks with similar interests (SciFi)
2) Catching up with friends I got to know online for the first time in real life
3) Getting to hear the Actors who played the parts tell their experiences
4) Chatting with the Authors about their ideas and stories
5) Checking out the Booths, to add a few jems to my collection (Books, Art, Video, Fill-In-The-Blank)
6) Networking about all of the above with the people I meet there
If you are beginning to see a pattern here, you have probably hit the nail on the head. I go for the people (Authors, Artists, Actors, and that’s only the “A” words!), not the corporate beancounters. If I spend the whole weekend, and only meet one “Real Person” at the event, I still come out ahead, in my book! LOL…
If you missed the initial broadcast, DO NOT miss this Sunday’s return! They did a world-class job on tying up all the loose ends, and the story beat out any previous episode. It starts at 3PM EST on the east coast feed, and the same PST for the west coast feed, on the SciFi Channel. If you have your own dish, watch both! If not, at least record it to add this one to your collection!
As the title implies, these are just a few links to several of the Space E-Zines I enjoy visiting. The Space Site is a good one, with everything from News to a Community Forum. So is Astrosurf, although it helps if you know French for this one. For the Educators who might find their way here, I can recommend Discovery School, as well as Lesson Planet. And while this is a specific story about SpaceShipOne, the BBC maintains a lot of great space/science news, so you should bookkmark it and follow it back to its source. Enjoy!
The Hubble Space Telescope is at risk of no longer being maintained, according to BBC News (and lots of other sources). The best place to find the latest info, as well as a detailed background, is at The Hubblesite. And if you’re in the mood for more things Hubble, you might want to check the European Hubble Homepage, a great place to get another perspective.
The edge of science, which is where scifi lives. The Singularity is the most important of them, and the one that will make its mark soon. But all of them are worth a visit, and worth at least some thought.
Interestingly enough, it isn’t a scifi mag, but a science one, that has the best story about the Singularity. Which should catch your attention, since it isn’t fiction, and will be here in the next few years!
Some other interesting things worth your time to check out include Advances in Nanotechnology… wait, this one isn’t scifi either, but a report on our advances! OK, how about the Exploration of Mars. Nope, another true story. So let’s go for a scifi classic, the one about not putting all our Eggs In One Basket. After all, survival is only a story, right?
Hmmm… It looks like the things that were scifi when I was growing up may be the way the world works today. That maybe being the case, I should offer a few other links, like the one to Neil Stephenson’s interview, or maybe C.L.Moore’s wonderful stories. Or maybe just to a few basic links, like Locus Mag, one of the most important sites on the web for Geeks Like Me! LOL…
I hope you find one or more of these links useful, and worth your time to check out. I like them all, and will be happy to chat with you about any and all of them!