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Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov and L. Sprague De Camp at the Navy Yard in 1944. Robert Heinlein was born in 1907, which put him on the mature side by the time of the United States’ entry into World War II. Isaac Asimov, his younger colleague in science fiction, was born in 1920 (or thereabouts), and thus of prime fighting age.
2 days ago · According to the “About the Author” in the e-book, Mr. Savile is currently fulfilling a lifelong dream of designing and writing role playing games. “The Banquet of Souls” is a decent but slight Kane tale. The story starts with Kane travelling on a soon to be shipwrecked boat. I was a little miffed that the author introduced a boy named ...
5 days ago · L. Sprague de Camp, Los Continents: The Atlantis Theme in History, Science, and Literature Ignatius Donnelly, Atlantis, and the romance of a lost past continental drift and plate tectonics and Lemuria Lemuria and Theosophy, anthroposophy and other occult beliefs
6 days ago · Award winning short stories. The two main awards given in American science fiction are the Hugos and the Nebulas. Complete lists of the short stories that won these awards are at Hugo Award for Best Short Story and Nebula Award for Best Short Story .
3 days ago · Conan the Barbarian is a 1982 American epic sword and sorcery film directed by John Milius and written by Milius and Oliver Stone.Based on Robert E. Howard's Conan, the film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Earl Jones, and tells the story of a barbarian warrior named Conan (Schwarzenegger) who seeks vengeance for the death of his parents at the hands of Thulsa Doom (Jones), the leader of ...
1 day ago · Orphan Black; Echoes premiered last Sunday.The Daily Beast liked it a lot—Variety, not so much. My personal observations, from the most superficial to the relatively less superficial, are: 1) Krystin Ritter is so skinny it’s distracting; 2) what the heck is a 4D printer, and 3) can they convince me the woman scientist is who they say she is?
5 days ago · Detail view of the forward starboard side armament and flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ranger (CV-4). Note the 5inch/25 AA guns in foreground with a quadruple 40 mm Bofors AA mounting behind. Beyond that a gallery of 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns lines the flight deck.
