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People are always asking where they should start reading particular authors. This series of posts working their way through the alphabet as represented by my bookshelves, is an attempt to answer those questions. The popular “A” list can be found here, and the full alphabetical index is here. Please comment to add any B writers that I may have missed, and of course to argue with my choices. I’m linking to my posts on the books where I have made such posts. My B shelf begins with a disturbingly large number of copies of Destinies, a paperback SF magazine edited by Jim Baen in my own personal golden age of the late seventies and early eighties. How I loved it and waited eagerly for new copies to arrive in the bookshop! There doesn’t seem much point recommending it now—but if you happen to see copies lying around it’s still worth picking up for the Spider Robinson reviews (lacerating books most people have now forgotten) the Pournelle essays on space futures and technology, the stories from new exciting authors like Orson Scott Card and established favourites like Anderson, Le Guin, Pohl, and Sheckley. Start randomly, but if I had to pick one it’s the copy dated Fall 1980, with part of Heinlein’s
Transfer Orbit Waking the Leviathan The story of how James S.A. Corey’s The Expanse went from game concept to blockbuster TV series , before Syfy debuted its adaptation of the series in December. I’m reprinting it now with some minor edits. If you enjoy this post, please consider signing up as a subscriber or sharing this post on social media. Image: Alcon It’s March 2015, and I am standing on the bridge of a starship. The crew work stations look worn, the walls are covered with warning signs, and the grated floor looks like something designed to be functional. If I didn’t know better, I’d think that I was standing on a real ship, hurtling through space. Instead, I am on the set of a new television series, a location that, until now, only existed in words on a page.
Pixel Scroll 12/19/20 A Long-Expected Party: Potlatch, Status And Spoons Among Late Third Age Hobbits Posted on (1) YouTube channel to host it. At the link is his impressive list of sources. I’ve spent several weekends working on a presentation of twentieth-century science fiction set in the year 2021, and here is the fruit of my labours, a 21-minute video. (2) BEEP BEEP, BEEP BEEP. Phil Plait, in a “Bad Astronomy” entry at …A standard radio astronomy technique to make sure that what you see is coming from the object you’re observing is to move the telescope back and forth a bit to point to a different part of the sky and see if the signal persists (perhaps leaking into the dish from a source nearby); this is called “nodding” because it’s like a head nodding. When they did this, the signal went away, then came back when they repointed at Proxima.
(1) DIGITAL DIAGNOSIS. N. K. Jemisin tries to work out what the symptoms of social media indicate. Thread starts here. Like, one person got hella mad at me a few days ago because I'm not into sports. A while back someone ranted at me for like 5 tweets because I said something good about an anime they disliked. Somehow "This was great!" turned into "Why do you, N. K. Jemisin, hate women?!"— N. K. Jemisin (@nkjemisin) December 17, 2020 In counseling we recognize lots of developmental stages. At one stage people tend to be very binary in their thinking: you're with us or against us, smart or stupid, perfect or terrible. They defer to whatever they decide is an authority, and that authority is infallible.— N. K. Jemisin (@nkjemisin) December 17, 2020
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(1) DIGITAL DIAGNOSIS. N. K. Jemisin tries to work out what the symptoms of social media indicate. Thread starts here. Like, one person got hella mad at me a few days ago because I'm not into sports. A while back someone ranted at me for like 5 tweets because I said something good about an anime they disliked. Somehow "This was great!" turned into "Why do you, N. K. Jemisin, hate women?!"— N. K. Jemisin (@nkjemisin) December 17, 2020 In counseling we recognize lots of developmental stages. At one stage people tend to be very binary in their thinking: you're with us or against us, smart or stupid, perfect or terrible. They defer to whatever they decide is an authority, and that authority is infallible.— N. K. Jemisin (@nkjemisin) December 17, 2020