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(1) CAN YOU DIG IT? “And the winner for San Jose BART's boring machine name competition is...” The Mercury News tears open the envelope. After more than 400 submissions and 1,175 votes on a name for San Jose BART’s tunnel boring machine, we have a winner — and it’s sure to make sci-fi fans giddy. “Shai-Hulud” came in first
(1) THUMBS UP, THUMBS DOWN. GameRant has opinions: “Ray Bradbury's Novels: Best & Worst Film & TV Adaptations”. The list starts with one Ray personally downchecked. … Not every adaptation has been perfect, of course, and even when the movie or show is a decent product other things can go wrong to make it less
Not many, according to a new collection of correspondence from a science fiction master.
It seems that every piece of incoming mail was, for Bradbury, an opportunity to ply his trade.
(1) MAINE PAPER INTERVIEWS LIADEN CREATORS. “Waterville authors’ marriage has stood the test of time – and deadlines”, in the Portland, ME Press-Herald. In the days when they were trying to build their careers as science fiction writers, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller had multiple jobs to pay the bills, and a shared typewriter. Lee