Orange County group, A few weeks back our Riverside group http://www.meetup,com/riversidescifimet and was scheduled to discuss *Houston, Houston Do You Read*,...
I am trying to come to grips with the fact that Mac is gone. I met him nearly a quarter of a century ago. He was always such a nice person, even when we...
pn KCET science & nature Nature of Things “Everyday Einstein” Tuesday, February 15 at 8 PM David Suzuki introduces us to Albert Einstein, the man who...
Here's some good news and a good deal for us (those who can get to Long Beach). Dick ... Subject: New Sci-Fi/Fantasy Store Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 10:48:15...
Thanks, Catherine. It's interesting that the ad fixated on Einstein's position at "a patent office" (which was the Swiss Federal Office of Intellectual ...
I read the link. "Beautiful woman?" What is this objectification of women that continues to plague us with non-essentials? How would you like to be judged...
Rules based society? More to the point, a principles-based society. We have lots of rules, and punishments for breaking them that amount to treating humans...
should be April 29, 30, May 1. Don't know how I screwed up most of it, even the month, but what the heck, have a laugh. Gordon ________________________________...
This month's book was Paolo Bacipagalupi's "The Windup Girl" the Nebula and Hugo award winner for 2009. In a dystopian future of oil scarcity, global warming,...
Dave Obviously I was not at Jan's Meeting and had not read the book. But I seem to notice a trend here. Are you reading a lot of Dystopian books? Is that ...
... [next book] Tanith Lee . . . "The Silver Metal Lover" (1999) 304 pages. . . It is a fairly long book, so if too many of you have trouble finding it and...
... Next Book, . . . something by Tanith Lee . . . "The Silver Metal Lover" (1999) 304 pages, More about this book - First published in 1981, It has seen...
Past reading orbit list To assist in ideas for the February discussion of Reading Orbit choices, I have scanned book choices starting with 2003, and list them...
The author (a personal friend of mine) is an aerobatic and competitive air racing pilot in the biplane class. ...
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John Bowen
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Feb 7, 2011 6:42 am
As I recall, Trina Robbins is a (or was) a cartoonist. Would I be right in assuming she only provided illustrations for the children's edition of Tanith Lee's...
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John Bowen
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Feb 7, 2011 6:53 am
Wayne, one of the challenges in picking books suitable for discussion is finding books that have something to say beyond the surface story. To take an...
John, You're right, I belong to a mainstream book club and before I got there, (last April) all they did was pretty much talk about how they liked the story or...
Eric Frank Russell's WASP is available at Amazon in many editions, including a large print edition: Mass market pbs start at 2.95 plus 3.99 shipping, but the...
Wayne's suggestion of Eric Frank Russell's WASP would fill our Golden Age author title for the year - and it is reported to be humorous in the telling. Maybe...
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