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PhilCon, Chick Corea, and Terry Bisson…

PhilCon 2004 is less than 2 weeks away; if you live on the East Coast of the U.S., this one would be worth a visit! A lot of like-minded SciFi Fans will be there, and some great Author/Artist Guests.

Chick Corea has built a great new album, with a world class group of musicians, based on a SciFi story by an old cult religion person. His music just keeps getting better and better.

Read Super 8, the new story from Terry Bisson, online at the SciFi channel web site. And for the Politically Impaired, you can be brought up to speed by reading this Interview/Inquisition.

Read Shakespeare Now

Harry Turtledove has done it again! If you love literature; if you enjoy ParaTime stories; If Shakespeare wrote the words that inspired you; if History is you favorite place to hang out; if Language and it’s evolution is what you want more of; if you have ever been concerned with Intellectual Property Rights; if nothing excites you more than a complex story with characters you can believe in; then you need to Read This Book!!
The book being Harry Turtledove’s RULED BRITANNIA, and to my mind it may be his best book yet. If you answered YES to at least one of the above questions, this one will not disappoint!

Online Reading

I have given links before about places to read sci-fi online for free. Another great one you may not be aware of will let you access some truly Classic science fiction short stories. The SciFi Channel updates the page often, and has included stories by Gardner Dozois, Joan D. Vinge, Eric Frank Russell, Roger Zelazny, and many others. Besides the current online story, the link includes an archive of past presentations, both classic and original.

In a totally different way to get (and give) your free dose of reading, Bookcrossing has a unique approach. When you find a book that speaks to you on a serious level, register it with them, document it’s registration info on the inside cover, and turn it loose… Give it to a friend, leave it on a chair at the airport or restaurant of your choice, and so forth. You can later log back into the site and view it’s travels around the world. This is Chaos Theory at it’s finest; some of them never show up on the site again. Others have long listings of people who have read your released copy. And you can even play games with the service; someone can release a book into the wild and leave clues, and you can try to be the one who finds and reads it!

Anonymous Rex

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.

Farscape, the Miniseries

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!

From The Edge…

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!