On 11 Apr 2008, at 03:52, Curtis Burisch wrote:
I have read almost all science fiction ever published, and my
biggest gripe
with the genre is that there are not enough authors publishing
enough works
to satisfy my appetite.
There have been between two- and three-hundred new sf novels
There have been between two- and three-hundred new sf novels
published in English every year since the seventies, and probably the
sixties when the paperback boom began. SF as a recognisable genre has
been published since the nineteenth century with Wells and Verne. SF
magazines began in
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Apr 10, 2008, at 3:29 PM, Gary Nunn wrote:
COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 9 (UPI) -- An Ohio lawmaker has proposed a bill
requiring parents of public school children to volunteer at the
schools or pay a $100 fine.
This was
On 11/04/2008, at 12:09 PM, Curtis Burisch wrote:
Interesting premise, reasonably executed. What makes it stand out are
the long long (long) takes, 4 and 5 minute action sequences done with
steadycam. Great stuff.
I noticed that take,
Takes, dude. More than once in the movie. Over and over,
On 4/11/08, Charlie Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I noticed that take,
Takes, dude. More than once in the movie. Over and over, long takes.
OK, no single one of them quite as special as the first chunk of Snake
Eyes, but a collection of great sequences.
The thing is the Snake Eyes take is
On 12/04/2008, at 2:24 AM, Martin Lewis wrote:
On 4/11/08, Charlie Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I noticed that take,
Takes, dude. More than once in the movie. Over and over, long takes.
OK, no single one of them quite as special as the first chunk of
Snake
Eyes, but a collection of
The cold front which has caused storms in other parts of the country
is entering the state and one of the local weather guys was just on
TV with severe weather safety tips, including a repeated warning to
stay away from Windows . . .
. . . ronn! :)
10,000 sf/fantasy novels published since 1960 and at least 5000 before?
i was a pretty heavy sf reader back then and running out of quality
sf, so that i was driven to reading heroic doc smith, lensmen, and
robert e. howard, conan the conqueror series.
today there is much more quality sf to
On 4/11/08, jon louis mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
today there is much more quality sf to read, but much of what is
published are series commissioned by publishers targeting the
adolescent sci-fi and fantasy market - authors like anne mccaffrey,
terry pratchet, j.j. rowling, and piers
At 12:00 PM 4/11/2008, Dan M wrote:
(Keith wrote)
Takes 10 200 ton payload
rockets each flying once a day to do it and with a blank check
perhaps under 5 years to work up to this production rate and 6-7
years from start to get to a $50 billion a year revenue stream
increasing at $25
At 12:00 PM 4/11/2008, Alberto wrote:
snip
Maybe even if launch costs were _zero_, orbital power satellites could
still have a negative energy net production. Last time I heard (when I
was working in the Space Industry, and not in the Oil Industry), solar
arrays required more energy to be built
--- None of those series were commissioned by publishers. They also
cover a span of, what, thirty years? So not exactly recent.
There has been an increase in Young Adult SF and fantasy but you would
have to be pretty churlish to think this was a bad thing. I really
doubt it is to the exclusion
Keith wrote:
Alberto 'oil rulez, fsck space!' Monteiro
Completely correct. But what do you do when you run out of oil? Try
this web site.
http://www.drmillslmu.com/peakoil.htm
We will *never* run out of oil. It's more likely that we will run
out of oxygen in the air :-P
The part on
On 11 Apr 2008, at 19:36, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
The cold front which has caused storms in other parts of the country
is entering the state and one of the local weather guys was just on
TV with severe weather safety tips, including a repeated warning to
stay away from Windows . . .
Always
On 11 Apr 2008, at 20:19, jon louis mann wrote:
10,000 sf/fantasy novels published since 1960 and at least 5000
before?
Just SF. Probably the same again for fantasy. In 1990, according to
the figures from Locus quoted by Gardner Dozois in his summation of
the year, there were 281 new SF
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