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• Book recommendation: Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov

  
  thinkMoult — Authority: 118
  Being of the current generation, I wasn’t around in the 1950s when Isaac Asimov created the Foundation Trilogy – namely three books: Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation . Isaac Asimov is one of those pioneers in the sci-fi genre and for good reason too as I learned later. Being a passive book ...
  18 hours ago

• The 2009 Botropolis Robot Gift Guide

  
  Botropolis — Authority: 500
  It’s that time of year again. Let’s hope that this isn’t the year that robots decide to roast some human chestnuts on an open fire and use our intestines as yule logs to light a fire in their cold incinerator hearts. For the moment we seem to be safe, so let’s take a look at some cool robot gifts for Xmas. ...
  6 days ago

• Memetic Engineering and Memetic Engineer

  
  Chris Abraham — Authority: 437
  I am the proud owner of MemeticEngineer.com — I have owned it forever!  Anyway, I just wanted to share with you what memetic engineering is — I also own memes.org — I love the concept and theory around memetics! Memetic Engineer on Disinfo Coined by zoologist Richard Dawkins in his controversial ...
  1 week ago

• THE FALL OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Isaac Asimov wrote his Foundation stories to show that every Empire, even the most powerful one, has to fall eventually. Everyone knows that America achieved its peak power and world influence in the twentieth century. But how much longer is it going to last? It is hard to predict while it is still alive and ...
  1 week ago

• Overcome the Fear of Flying

  
  Health Blog ~Menarec.com — Authority: 100
  One of the most predictable things that can happen to you in any aircraft is an attack of severe panic. Also known as aerophobia, it has caused even the most composed individuals to lose their cool and cry out. A lot of time this fear is a mixture of different kinds of phobia, like claustrophobia and acrophobia ...
  2 weeks ago

• Inside the Blogosphere: Worst Endings in SF/F/H

  
  Grasping for the Wind — Authority: 132
  Occasionally, I ask some of the best book bloggers in sf/f/h a question about their reading choices, favorites, desires, or any old thing about the genre. I then collect the answers and post them here. This time I asked our participant bloggers: What are the worst or most disappointing endings in science ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Waters of Mars

  
  'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?' — Authority: 469
  As I’ve mentioned in responding to comments on my post on Saturday, I share the view that the links between crime fiction and science fiction are very strong. A long list of the fine writers who have worked in both genres includes Isaac Asimov, John Sladek, Fredric Brown, and John Wyndham (though Wyndham seems to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Buy Jupiter - Isaac Asimov

  
  Martin's Booklog — Authority: 92
  Buy JupiterIsaac Asimov238 pagespublished in 1975It’s hard to know for sure at this late date, but Buy Jupiter, together with I, Robot, was probably the first science fiction book I’ve ever read. one of the. I must have been seven or eight years old or so and this and the few other adult science fiction [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Honda – Asimo: dagli androidi di “Io robot” alla realtà

  
  DaringToDo.com — Authority: 146
  Tanti hanno visto “ Io, robot ”, il famoso film prodotto dalla 20th Century Fox del 2004, diretto da Alex Proyas con Will Smith (Del Spooner) nel ruolo di protagonista. La storia era costruita sulla riproduzione dell’uomo con un robot, le cui capacità erano incatenate all’interno delle “leggi della ...
  3 weeks ago

• Emmerich Rewrites History, the Future (After Destroying Earth)

  
  Underwire — Authority: 140
  Following Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow , Roland Emmerich will destroy the world for the third time in the apocalyptic fantasia 2012 . You’ve probably seen the previews and posters for 2012 , which opens Friday: Los Angeles melts into the ground, the USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier ...
  3 weeks ago

• Philosophy in Science Fiction

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 771
  Blogger Kenny Pearce is developing a bibliography of works of science fiction that are particularly noteworthy for expressing a philosophical worldview or premise. He presents several categories, such as Mind, Solipsism, and Sex and Gender. Some of the stories that he lists are available online, like Isaac ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Box: A “Gift” You Should Leave Unopened

  
  Poptimal.com — Authority: 533
  Wow.  I’m sorry to say that I was very disappointed with The Box .  Why?  Because there was so much potential.  So many movies have the psychological, suspenseful underpinnings that would make for an excellent film, but something goes awry in the execution.  The Box intrigued me not only with its premise, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Without Foundation

  
  File 770 — Authority: 136
  Dear Roland Emmerich: I admit I was a tad snarky in my post about your next project . I sounded as if your promise not to ruin Isaac Asimov’s Foundation was insincere. Sillier yet, I made it sound like a good idea for fans to try and hold you to it. When I was telling Willard Stone about this news item at ...
  3 weeks ago

• Don Ivan Punchatz (1936-2009)

  
  File 770 — Authority: 136
  Famed illustrator Don Ivan Punchatz died October 22 of cardiac arrest. He was an acknowledged influence on the sf art field who did some of the most iconic sf book covers of his generation, as the New York Times  noted: Mr. Punchatz was a skilled hyperrealist with a penchant for the fantastic and absurd. His ...
  4 weeks ago

• Review: Mars: The Red Planet

  
  Puss Reboots: A Book Review a Day — Authority: 133
  Mars: The Red Planet is a nonfiction introduction to basic astrophysics aimed at "young readers." The book uses Mars to teach key concepts like perihelia vs. aphelia, rotation vs revolution, mass vs. density and so forth. All of the lessons are keyed specifically to Mars. For someone new to physics and astronomy ...
  5 weeks ago

• Book News: Sequels, Lesbians, T.S. Eliot’s Post-Wasteland Exhaustion and the Battle for Jack Kerouac’s Estate

  
  Book Case — Authority: 117
  With sequels to everything from Noddy, Winnie the Pooh, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and now a planned series of new Isaac Asimov novel’s it’s become the thankless task of a bunch of authors to keep the dead alive. A difficult job as Paul Bignell and Andrew Johnson argue in a recent article for ...
  5 weeks ago

• Asimov estate authorizing trilogy of sequels to I, ROBOT

  
  The Knight Shift — Authority: 140
  Isaac Asimov - perhaps the most prolific writer of the Twentieth Century and especially regarded for his contributions to science fiction - passed away in 1992. Its now being announced that Asimovs estate has given the official go-ahead for a trilogy of sequel novels to his acclaimed I, Robot series. The books will ...
  5 weeks ago

• Review: Foundation series #1-4 by Isaac Asimov

  
  Birdbrain(ed) Book Blog — Authority: 131
  Note: There’ll probably be some spoilers in this post, as I’m reviewing four books in a series at once. If you’d like to play it safe, the review for the first book should be spoiler-free enough to read. Not sure about the others. Also, this’ll probably be a lengthy post. Stick with me, eh? An intro I’ve ...
  5 weeks ago

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