Tag: Gardner Dozois
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SCIENCE FICTION OF THE THIRTIES edited by Damon Knight
TITLE: SCIENCE FICTION OF THE THIRTIES EDITED BY: Damon Knight CATEGORY: Short Fiction SUB-CATEGORY: Anthology PUBLISHER: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., Indianapolis/New York, 1975 FORMAT: Hardback, 1st Edition, 464 pages CONTENTS: Foreword by Damon Knight \”Out Around Rigel\” by Robert H. Wilson (1931) \”The Fifth-Dimension Catapult\” by Murray Leinster (1931) \”Into the Meteorite Orbit\” by Frank…
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In the Beginning… My Earliest Days on the Internet (Part One)
I\’ve been online for a long time now, almost twenty years, in fact. My love affair with the internet started when I first came online on Christmas morning, December 1995, and has continued ever since. I can now barely remember what life was like before the internet, and it\’s so much part of my daily…
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It\’s a Geek\’s Life… (Part Three)
This one has been a long time coming, far too long. But better late than never, I suppose… 🙂 The Barren Years – The Near-Death of Geekery During the Eighties All throughout the first half of the 1970\’s, I was in geek heaven, having seemingly unlimited time to spend on my obsessions with comics, sf…
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It\’s a Geek\’s Life… (Part Three)
The Barren Years – The Near-Death of Geekery During the Eighties [A]ll throughout the first half of the 1970\’s, I was in geek heaven, having seemingly unlimited time to spend on my obsessions with comics, sf literature, telefantasy and sci-fi films. But by 1977-78, things began to change considerably. I began my A-Levels at college…
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Books, Books and More Books
The books keep on rolling in (mostly SF), faster than I can keep up with reading them. I sometimes wonder if I\’ll ever get to read even half of them (I\’ll be lucky) before I die of old age. But it won\’t be for lack of trying on my part. Lessee – over the past…