futurismic.com - 11/20/2008
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Loving the Alien returns after a brief hiatus, and Mac Tonnies takes the time to wonder why literary science fiction has never embraced the UFO as a conceptual alpha or omega point. (more…)
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io9.com - 11/25/2008
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As Thanksgiving approaches, families around the US are
gathering to give thanks, eat food, and annoy the...
hell out of one another. When your family starts arguing about your uncle’s drinking, your sister’s convict boyfriend, or your cousin’s decision ...
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Science Fiction’s Most Dysfunctional Families [Triviagasm]
blogs.discovermagazine.com - 11/26/2008
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Dave Mosher over at the Discovery Channel blog
collective (not to be confused with our own beloved...
Discover Magazine Hive Overmind) asked me if I could write down my thoughts about UFOs, so he could post it over at their site to support a show they’re ...
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Aliens? Yes. UFOs? No.
stopabductions.com - 11/24/2008
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SF Tidbits for 11/20/08
SF Signal —
... At Futurismic, Mac Tonnies looks at UFOs and Science Fiction: "A casual onlooker might assume the anything-goes literary arena of science fiction and the often wild-eyed domain of contemporary ufology might make natural partners. But strangely (to my mind), science fiction has never gravitated to UFOs." ...
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... It’s been a pretty positive week at Futurismic, all told - some good posts from the team, Mac’s latest essay got a reasonable stream of comments without any serious crankery (including an appearance by Rudy Rucker himself!), and we’ve got two new stories on which the purchase process is already rolling, with another two waiting on rewrites. Huzzah! ...
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