Due to a conflict he could not work around, Dave Wolverton will be unable to attend "Life, the Universe and Everything 22: The Marion K. "Doc" Smith Symposium...
Was everyone aware of this? I've been told you have to do this for every computer you use. ... Subject: Yahoo's new spying trick - VERY IMPORTANT Yahoo's up...
Bellamy, Maria-Englis...
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Feb 3, 2004 3:27 pm
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News of Mars sparked an interesting interview. My eyebrows went up over the every-school-has-a-course bit though: <paste> Foxnews.com: Do you think science...
Bellamy, Maria-Englis...
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Feb 5, 2004 7:25 pm
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I was under the impression that with the "every school" bit he was referring to colleges, not K-12. Still a bit of an overstatement, but not really by a huge...
Some Educators might be intrigued with the concept of a marriage between Search Engines and Sounds, which is the latest subject of a news letter on Search...
I teach. We don't have any science fiction in the school as a class, but we do have some in the school library... and I keep giving them more as I pick up...
sorry if this has already been posted, I didn't recall having seen it here before ... Subject:Moon is a Harsh Mistress Movie ... Genre TV producer Tim Minear...
Bellamy, Maria-Englis...
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Feb 10, 2004 3:56 pm
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Experience Science Fiction opening this June in Seattle inside the Experience Music Project is hoping to present a number of public lectures, classes, etc. on...
Noreascon 4 Student Science Fiction and Fantasy Contest http://www.bucconeer.worldcon.org Noreascon 4, the 62nd World Science Fiction Convention, in ...
I would like to see some science fiction writers movies be given the Jackson treatment. I have not read much Heinlein in the past thirty years except two...
dg anderson
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Feb 13, 2004 6:18 pm
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"The Cave of Night" was adapted as "Man in Orbit" on the old Desilu Playhouse in 1959, and ten years later THE IMMORTALS became an ABC Movie of the Week as THE...
As for the Ender's Game script, Card posted a draft a year or two ago -- and I have to say, it was really, really inferior to the book. First, because he was...
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Feb 14, 2004 4:06 am
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I have trouble imagining both Moon and Spacesuit as movies. I think that Have Spacesuit Will Travel would *work* better than Moon, but I don't see how they...
I never said they'd be good movies.... After all, we saw the complete and total mess they made of Starship Troopers...which, apparently, has a sequel in the...
DocJam00@...
Feb 14, 2004 2:46 pm
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*I* didn't see the mess they made of Starship Troopers. I couldn't bring myself to pay for a ticket, rent the movie or watch it at any of the conventions I've...
The title, I think, was SEVEN FOOTPRINTS TO SATAN, and it was filmed once, probably in the Thiries. A fine fantasy novel, I used to think, that starts with a...
Alas, nothing much to report on the movie front... though there have been hints re THE LIFE EATERS.... ===== . . * Please note. My email address of many years...
Davd Brin
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Feb 14, 2004 10:52 pm
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If I had never read the book, I might like the movie...the special effects are very good. But compared to the book, the movie is like reading a bad reader's...
DocJam00@...
Feb 14, 2004 11:12 pm
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I met Scott Card at a local SF con before being exposed to the Reading for the Future trio. Scott once said that Ender's Game would have been made as a movie...
I thought the movie was way too violent. The book allows all the violence to take place off-screen, as it were. Paul Verhoeven put the violence right up there,...
I suppose that depends on whether or not you consider SF serious literature. Its hard to consider it serious literature when legions of people gather in a...
--On 15 February 2004 19:03 -0500 "Magi D. Shepley" <magid@...> ... Is this science fiction or James Joyce fandom you're talking about? :-) ... Andy...
I suppose it could be both! But honestly, I have issues with saying people should read something because its 'serious literature' or a 'classic'. That is a...
"Verhoeven now claims that he was parodying Heinlein"--I've heard that too, but I think that's a steaming pile of what horses do. He came up with that after...
Bellamy, Maria-Englis...
mbellamy@...
Feb 16, 2004 3:23 pm
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Things endure for a reason. If something is designated a classic it deserves a look based on the strength of its reputation. That's more justifiable than...
Bellamy, Maria-Englis...
mbellamy@...
Feb 16, 2004 3:46 pm
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Things endure and are read because people tell others to read it. I read Silas Marner because my mother talked about it forever and how bad it was. There...
http://woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1645394&nav=0RclKpQF "Asimov's Science Fiction is the magazine in question, and from the outside cover, doesn't look like...
Love, Andrew E., Jr.
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Feb 17, 2004 2:08 pm
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Andy Sawyer wrote, in response to Magi D. Shepley ... Smilies taken into account. After Magi's comment I was going to write something about Ernest Hemingway...
