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The Short: I recently reread "The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge", 2001 Tor, 21 years after reading it the first time. I had read some of these stories recently, but many of them not since 2002. I gave the 17 stories here an average overall rating of 3.73/5, or "Very good". Recommended. The Long: I've…

(1) LUKYANENKO NOT AT WORLDCON. There’s no sign of the Chengdu Worldcon’s Russian GoH Sergey Lukyanenko in social media coverage of the con. And the latest posts to his blog on his official website (devoted to anti-Israel remarks, and a report that his wife rescued a migrating woodcock in the backyard) suggest he’s at home.

Worldcon Wayback Machine Introduction: Thirty years ago this weekend ConFrancisco, the 1993 World Science Fiction Convention, was held in San Francisco, California. I thought it would fun to compile a day-by-day recreation drawing on the report I ran in File 770, Evelyn Leeper’s con report on Fanac.org (used with permission), and the contributions of others. Here

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The Hugo Award was created in honor of Hugo Gernsback, described as "The Father of Magazine Science Fiction" when he was given an award in 195...

The Hugo Award was created in honor of Hugo Gernsback, described as "The Father of Magazine Science Fiction" when he was given an award in 195...

About this Series Thousands of years from now, a mind...

The future is now. Kevin Cormack deep dives into a less hostile world of anime AI (although some of these robots definitely could kill you...if they wanted).

One HUGE benefit of prayer and fasting is that it empties us in order to be filled. It weakens the flesh in order to be strengthened by the Spirit. 

Vernor Vinge's 1992 novel also foretold a lot of social media discourse.