tor.com - 11/10/2008
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All science fiction romance couples have their ups and downs, their disagreements, their Big Misunderstandings—superhero couples included. After all, they aren’t immune to heartbreak, just because they can shoot destructive beams from their eyes or split a planet in half.
Underneath the capes ...
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Surprise Starlinks
Mike Brotherton: SF Writer —
James Nicoll had a link too awesome to not also distribute asap, hence some surprise starlinks for today (I hadn’t planned to starlink today). Anyway, here is a 3-d, rotating map of the solar neighborhood within 14 light-years. Way cool.
Top ten superhero love spats, as discussed over at tor.com, with my two favorites at the top.
Find out how FEMA deals with crashed UFOs! From gizmodo.
From toplessrobot, top eight sf/f books that need to be made into movies. What, couldn’t find two more? Forever War is missing, as is Neuromancer, for starters, and some others there are in ...
SF Tidbits for 11/11/08
SF Signal —
... asks: What Killed the Robot Soldier? "Did the Army finally decide that it would be prudent to wait until something more lethal was developed?"
SciFi Scanner points out the existence of this awesome Bruce Campbell Doll...er...I mean action figure
Lists: @Topless Robot: The 8 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books Which Most Desperately Need Movies. @Mental Floss: 5 TV Shows that Predicted the Future. @Tor: Top 10 Superhero Love Spats. 5 Things John Scalzi Wants. @Discover ...
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