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Can This Time-Traveling Marriage Be Saved From Its Own Banality? - The Time Traveler's Wife - io9
The Time Traveler's Wife is a story about deja vu. Everything that happens has already happened, and will happen again, thanks to the story's endless time loops. So maybe that's why everything in the movie feels so tiresomely familiar. Spoilers...
Who are the bookarmy? - BookArmy
Bookarmy is a social networking website for every sort of reader. Whether you’re a bookaholic or someone who picks up a book only once a year while relaxing on holiday, bookarmy is the place to discuss and review books, build reading lists, get the best book recommendations, and where you and your friends, family or classmates can read books together.
What makes bookarmy different from other book sites is that here you can make direct contact with authors; see what star rating they have given books, browse their reading lists, ask them questions about their own writing, and recommend titles to them.
BBC - Radio 4 In Our Time - Brave New World
Brave New World is a lurid, satirical dystopia in which the hopes and fears of the 1930s are writ large and yet the book seems uncannily prescient about our own time. But why did Huxley feel the need to write it and is Brave New World really as dystopian as we are led to believe?
"The Most Brilliant Sci-Fi Mind on Any Planet: Philip K. Dick" 1975 Rolling Stone Article by Paul Williams - Boing Boing
Here's a PDF scan of the November 6, 1975 edition of Rolling Stone with a terrific profile of Philip K. Dick by Paul Williams.
Must Read: The Twenty Science Fiction Novels that Will Change Your Life
Spring equinox will be here in just a few weeks, and there's no better way to get ready for the seasonal change than to dig into some great science fiction books. io9 wants to help you get in the mood for transformation by offering this list of twenty science fiction novels that could change the way you see the world, and maybe even change your life. Whether it's because they've altered the course of science fiction writing, or simply provide a genuinely alien perspective on ordinary life, these are novels that will rearrange how you think. Check out our list below.
Ridley Scott to adapt Haldeman's Forever War - Boing Boing
Ridley Scott has acquired the film-rights to Joe Haldeman's magnificent, Hugo-award-winning classic science fiction novel, The Forever War. This is one of the great anti-war novels of all time... Fox 2000 has acquired rights to Joe Haldeman’s 1974 novel "
SF Masterworks for Gollancz: complete science fiction series listing
A complete list of the SF Masterworks, in series order, including out of print books
32 Sci-Fi Novels You Should Read | How To Split An Atom
Looking for some new material to add to your science fiction reading list? Below are 32 books that have pushed the boundaries of the genre, inspired generations of thinkers and in some cases have even predicted key aspects of societies development.
New Film Version of Dune: "its theme of finite ecological resources is particularly timely" : TreeHugger
Another film version of the classic sci-fi novel Dune by Frank Hebert is planned, this time with Peter Berg as director... "The filmmakers consider [Dune's] theme of finite ecological resources particularly timely."
Dune (2010)
Director:
Peter Berg
Top 15 Science Fiction Book Series - The List Universe
Nothing is better than finishing a brilliant science fiction novel knowing that it is only the first in a series... For your reading pleasure, here are the 15 greatest science fiction book series.
Amazon.com: Invisible Life: A Novel: E. Lynn Harris: Books
E. Lynn Harris's track record as a bestselling novelist began here, with the story of Raymond Tyler, who, after years of questioning his sexual identity, finds himself torn between a married male lover and Nicole, the talented actress with whom he imagine
Booksthatmakeyoudumb
Ever read a book (required or otherwise) and upon finishing it thought to yourself, "Wow. That was terrible. I totally feel dumber after reading that."? I know I have. Well, like any good scientist, I decided to see how well my personal experience matches
Teleportation: The leap from fact to fiction in new movie <i>Jumper</i>
Fahri also said he would have no interest in being able to teleport... even if it were possible. "No. No. Once you destroy the quantum state of the object, the thing is gone... "If you mess up the teleportation, then you're a goner."
YouTube - Sir Arthur C Clarke: 90th Birthday Reflections
The world's best known writer of science fiction, Sir Arthur C Clarke was the first to propose satellite communications in 1945. One of his short stories inspired the World Wide Web, while another was later expanded to make the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey
Through the Looking Glass - washingtonpost.com
People in really small towns can become world-class connoisseurs of something via eBay and Google. This didn't used to be possible. If you are sufficiently obsessive and diligent, you can be a little kid in some town in the backwoods of Tennessee and the
The Last Question
Asimov thought that The Last Question, first copyrighted in 1956, was his best short story ever. Even if you do not have the background in science to be familiar with all of the concepts presented here, the ending packs more impact than any other book tha
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