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Category Archives: Science Fiction

An Upsidedown World

Friday, May 8, 2009

I’m always looking for new twists on old themes.
And, frankly, the whole “alternate Earth” thing is a very old theme. But, I have to admit, it’s one that I can’t get away from in my own head. One of the alternate Earths that I contemplate on a regular basis is an inverted Earth. An Earth [...]

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Happy Birthday, William Gibson, Sir~!

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Today is William Gibson’s Birthday!
For those of you who have been hiding under a rock for the past twenty years, or have been freshly cloned, William Gibson is the primary progenitor of the cyberpunk movement. He’s generally credited with coining the term “cyberspace” and popularizing a somewhat more realistic, if somewhat bleak, view of the [...]

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Happy Birthday, My Droogie Lad.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Today is the birthday of novelist and critic Anthony Burgess
He was born John Anthony Burgess Wilson in Manchester, England on this day in 1917. Though he had written several novels early in his career, none of them were particularly successful. His career took a different turn, however, when, in 1959, he began to suffer from [...]

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Isaac Asimov’s Birthday

Friday, January 2, 2009

It’s the birthday of one of the most prolific writers of the 20th century, Isaac Asimov, who was born in Petrovichi, Russia in 1920. He came with his family to the United States when he was three years old and his parents opened a candy shop in Brooklyn. Issac grew up to become a professor [...]

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Two Science-Fiction Visionaries, Born Today

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Today is the birthday of two very important science-fiction writers.
The first is science fiction novelist Philip K. Dick, who was born in Chicago in 1928. He began to suffer from visions and hallucinations in the 1950s. He once thought he saw a face in the sky, which he described as “a vast visage of evil [...]

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Happy Birthday, Mr. Herbert!

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Today is Frank Herbert’s Birthday.
Of course, he passed away in 1986, the year I graduated from high-school, but his work lives on. Mr. Herbert is primarily known for his seminal work, Dune, and the other books in the series that followed. Though, interestingly enough, he never intended to write sequels.
Often refered to as the science-fiction [...]

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Happy Birthday, Mr. Burroughs!

Monday, September 1, 2008

Today is Edgar Rice Burroughs’ birthday!
ERB, as he is often known by fans, was born in Chicago in 1875. He is probably most famous as the creator of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, which is a series of stories about an English nobleman who was abandoned in the African jungle during infancy and brought up [...]

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Happy Birthday, Guy Montag!

Friday, August 22, 2008

It’s the birthday of science fiction writer Ray Bradbury, who was born in Waukegan, Illinois on this day in 1920.
Bradbury is one of the most famous and well-known science-fiction writers of all time, having written a number of classics.
The story goes, that one night, Bradbury was out for a walk when a policeman pulled up [...]

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