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SF Tidbits for 11/20/08
SF Signal —
... Auxiliary Memory talks about The Children of Science Fiction: "I feel the kids who grew up with Star Wars are much different from my generation that grew up with Heinlein, Asimov and Clarke. Sure we might have evolved some when we started reading Delany, Zelazny and Dick, and the New Wave writers, but we're strangely tied to that generation of Ace Doubles and Ballantine Books and finding our reading thrills on twirling wired racks. And I wonder if the kids who grow up now with the many forms of science fiction today have any sense of kinship at all." ...
Friday Starlinks
Mike Brotherton: SF Writer —
Seth Shostak, predicting SETI success soon if “some assumptions hold.” Hopeful, but not holding my breath.
Cosmic rays from Dark Matter? It’s a mystery wrapped in a puzzle surrounding an enigma. Or something else.
The Children of Science Fiction. Once a children, always a children?
A Map of the Worlds of Serenity. Still seems scientifically implausible to me.
E=MC^2 derived from quantum chromodynamics. Sound smart to your friends if you can read ...
