sfcrowsnest.com - 1/19/2009
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Welcome to SFcrowsnest.com Sci-Fi Play We're the net's sci-fi and fantasy gaming arcade site, featuring 2000 science fiction games that you can play, share, and bookmark for whenever you're bored at home or work! Stephen Hunt's SFcrowsnest.com, offering sci-fi news, reviews and features online ...
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SFcrowsnest adds "Sci Fi Play"
Grasping for the Wind —
... SF Crowsnest has added a new section of online games! Play arcade, adventure, racing puzzle, or even steampunk specific online games. According to Hunt,
"You can now beat your Monday morning global depression economic woe-filled lunchtime blues by introducing orcs to your bloody axe or blasting enemy starships to pieces. Your bank of choice will probably still end up being nationalised, but at least you'll have a high score to show for it."
So go check it our HERE. I dare you to try and beat my high score! ...
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Enter the Octopus —
... Three generations of adventurously new science fiction
Kage Baker on Georges Méliès’ “Impossible Voyage”
PDAs of the ancient Sumerians
Cool post on Steampunk as a post-apocalyptic genre
Cool old SF magazine: Bizarre, 1941.
Norah Vincent’s Involuntary Madness only scratches the surface
SF Crowsnest expands to gaming (Thanks, SMD!)
Warren Ellis’ “Blue Monday” photo spread
Review of Andre ...
SF Crowsnest adds “Sci-Fi Play”
Tor.com —
... , one of the oldest scifi websites (as in 1991) has added an entirely new section called Sci-fi Play. In it, you the gamer have the opportunity to play all kinds of time-waster games online during your lunch hour, or in bed, or when your significant other asks you to take out the trash. ...
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