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• The 2009 Botropolis Robot Gift Guide

  
  Botropolis — Authority: 501
  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. ...
  2 days ago

• Isaac Asimov – The Relativity of Wrong

  
  Sean's Mental Walkabout — Authority: 121
  The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern “knowledge” is that it is ...
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• Memetic Engineering and Memetic Engineer

  
  Chris Abraham — Authority: 144
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• In The Mirror Lies The Smoking Gun

  
  O'Ceallaigh & The Quill — Authority: 127
  Regular readers of this blog know that I have a habit of looking at issues that We the People blame on Them (you know who “They” are) and suggesting that “They” are the ones that you – and I – shave with every morning. That’s probably how come there are so few of you regular readers. And there ...
  6 days 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 ...
  6 days ago

• "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not..."

  
  Daily Cow — Authority: 164
  “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but ‘That’s funny…’” - Issac Asimov
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• 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 ...
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• Inside the Blogosphere: Worst Endings in SF/F/H

  
  Grasping for the Wind — Authority: 135
  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: 494
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Buy Jupiter - Isaac Asimov

  
  Martin's Booklog — Authority: 93
  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 [...]
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  DaringToDo.com — Authority: 147
  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 ...
  2 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: 781
  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: 532
  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

• How Osama Bin Laden May Have Been Inspired by Isaac Asimov

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 585
  Giles Foden writes in the Guardian : In October last year, an item appeared on an authoritative Russian studies website that soon had the science-fiction community buzzing with speculative excitement. It asserted that Isaac Asimov’s 1951 classic Foundation was translated into Arabic under the title ...
  3 weeks ago

• To Asimov’s or not to Asimov’s?

  
  Ecstatic Days — Authority: 636
  A couple of weeks ago, Jeff took Asimov’s Magazine to task over on the Sofanauts podcast. So in thinking of writing a blog post as a guest here this month, I thought I’d write something in defence of Asimov’s, just to take a devil’s advocate role. I was going to write about how Asimov’s, being a Dell ...
  4 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 ...
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• Review: Mars: The Red Planet

  
  Puss Reboots: A Book Review a Day — Authority: 134
  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 ...
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• Asimov Estate Authorizing New I, Robot Books...

  
  Fantasy Cafe — Authority: 115
  ...and theyre already getting slammed : They should not be followed up and continued. Isaac Asimoc(sic) died forty years after they were first written. If he had wanted to follow them up, he would have. The author’s intentions need to be respected here. Ok, Ill agree theres logic to that. Im sure if Asimov had ...
  4 weeks ago

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