by G.L. Breedon | Jul 29, 2011 | Art
When I was a kid, about 11 or twelve I guess, there was an episode of 60 Minutes that featured an architect building a new kind of city in the desert of Arizona. Shortly thereafter, I read a more detailed article about him in Future Life Magazine, a magazine of...
by G.L. Breedon | Jul 28, 2011 | Art, Science, Science Fiction, Space
There is a nice article at BBC News today about the relationship between spaceship art and spaceship design. There is even a quote at the end of the article by my favorite professor from college, Eric S. Rabkin. But space is a particularly romanticized part of our...
by G.L. Breedon | Jul 27, 2011 | Books, Fantasy, Reviews
I finished Patrick Rothfuss’s The Wise Man’s Fear a while ago. Before I write about that I should write about The Name of the Wind, the novel that precedes it in his King Killer Chronicle. I loved The Name of the Wind. LOVED IT. I hadn’t read a novel...
by G.L. Breedon | Jul 26, 2011 | Books, Retro-Nostalgia, Science Fiction, SF & Fantasy News
Great news today. SF Gateway will be publishing tons of great sci-fi classics as ebooks over the next few years. Whole back lists of authors whose work is currently out of print an unavailable. They are being published by Orion Books, the same folks who are bringing...
by G.L. Breedon | Jul 25, 2011 | Retro-Nostalgia, Science
I came across this site the other day. Popular Science Magazine has partnered with Google to create a searchable archive of all their back issues. When I was a kid, about 12 I guess, I discovered a large box of my grandfather’s old Popular Science and Popular...
