by G.L. Breedon | Aug 11, 2011 | Science, Space
Cool new photos from NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity as it finishes a nearly three year journey across the surface of the planet to the Endeavor crater. It makes me long for the days when we talked with straight faces about sending humans to Mars....
by G.L. Breedon | Aug 10, 2011 | Fantasy, Science Fiction, SF & Fantasy News
I missed this when it was posted a few days ago. Kindle Daily Post has a great interview with Prof. Eric Rabkin of the University of Michigan as part of their plug for their new promotion offering a free subscription to a paired down version of The Magazine of Fantasy...
by G.L. Breedon | Aug 8, 2011 | Books, Reviews, Science Fiction
I picked up a copy of Poul Anderson’s Tau Zero on ebay last year in a lot of mixed classic sci-fi novels. It turned out to be one my favorite novels from the last few years. The crew of an interstellar expedition become trapped on board in an ever accelerating...
by G.L. Breedon | Aug 5, 2011 | Books, Space
Via i09, the site Sci-Fi-O-Rama has a great post. In 1969 Time-Life Records released TO THE MOON, a six record set interviews and astronaut conversations along with an accompanying photo diary book. Sci-Fi-O-Rama has some beautiful scans from the book. I only wish...
by G.L. Breedon | Aug 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
I came across this a while ago and thought it would be good to share. A fellow named Levar, who runs the blog Vintage Paperbacks, has a ton of old sci-fi and pulp covers posted on flickr. His collection of covers by sci-fi artist Richard M. Powers is particularly...
by G.L. Breedon | Aug 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
There is an interesting article in the Atlantic today by E.D. Kain, the blogger of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen about the current popularity of Fantasy stories in fiction, movies, and TV. Kain thinks were in a Fantasy bubble that will inevitably burst. As much as...
by G.L. Breedon | Aug 1, 2011 | Science, Space
This is fun news. Seattle’s Space Needle is giving away a free trip to space to celebrate their 50th anniversary. The space flight will be with Space Adventures. Who doesn’t want to free trip to space? I’m entering...
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...
