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Winfield City wins 1A-3A State Indoor Track Championship Winfield High School won the Class 1A/3A boys’ state title Friday as the 51st AHSAA Indoor Track and Field Championships got underway at the Birmingham CrossPlex Friday. (Source: WBRC) By Christina Chambers | February 5, 2021 at 5:23 PM CST - Updated February 5 at 5:23 PM BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Winfield City High School won the Class 1A/3A boys’ state title Friday as the 51st AHSAA Indoor Track and Field Championships got underway at the Birmingham CrossPlex Friday. The Pirates of Coach Steve Reaves won the 1A/3A boy...

Elaine Chung When Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham started to collaborate, turning Franck's long-running role-playing game into a novel called Still Franck and Abraham persevered, selling Leviathan Wakes to Orbit Books under the pen name James S.A. Corey. When the book was published, the front cover sported a quote from George R.R. Martin: "It's been too long since we've had a really kickass space opera." Now, of course, Leviathan Wakes has been followed by eight sequels and a TV show, The Expanse, whose fifth season ends tonight. And the shelves at your local bookstore are crammed with kick...

photo by: Nick Krug/Journal-World File Photo Pictured in this Journal-World file photo from May 2018 is James Gunn, University of Kansas professor emeritus of English, nicknamed the "Dad of Science Fiction." Gunn died Dec. 23, 2020, at age 97. People around the world were familiar with author and professor James Gunn, who had earned the nickname of the “Dad of Science Fiction.” But by age 97, he had also become the “granddad and the great granddad” of the genre, according to his colleague and close friend. “A lot of people who are writers now took classes from somebody who took c...

Grand Master James Gunn, 97, died December 23, 2020. Gunn was one of the field’s true polymaths, excelling as an SF author, editor, and scholar. Gunn served as President of Science Fiction Writers of America in 1971-1972 and the organization honored him with a Damon Knight Grand Master Award in 2006. He was inducted into the SF Hall of Fame in 2015. James Edwin Gunn was born July 12, 1923 in Kansas City MO. He attended the University of Kansas, where he earned a BA in journalism and a master’s in English, though his education was interrupted by three years serving in the US Navy during WW...

Starfog The introduction is not quite correct, in that the reader can find resonances between stories, sometimes in stories back-to-back. There are plenty of threads, and a fan of Anderson and his Nordic viewpoint might call it a skein, a tangled skein of fictional ideas, themes, ideas and characters. The same introduction notes that a lot of the furniture of science fiction can be found in early forms here, as Anderson being one of those authors who have made them what they were for successive writers. In many cases, then, it is not the freshness of the ideas that one reads these stories for...