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Looking Close to Home
Science fiction tends to take place a long distance away from here, both in time and in space.
Notes From the Buffer Zone
The New Golden Age
I was born in 1960, seven months before John F. Kennedy said in his inaugural address that “a torch has been passed to a new generation.”
From The Heart's Basement
Fragments of Sussex
He, Suspension, Darkness Ballard's "condensed novels," brief snapshots of the century in turmoil, began in New Worlds in the early 1960's, were aggregated into The Atrocity Exhibition, a collection at the end of that decade and probably had more effect upon science fiction than any other work from that period.
Past Masters
Past Masters—A Kuttner Above the Rest (But Wait, There's Moore!)
I set out this time around to complain about how doing this was both a pleasure and a pain for me; the former because I enjoy doing it and the latter because I shouldn't have to.
Quarks to Quasars:The Science of Science Fiction
Human Immortality
Do you want to live forever? Maybe you will.
Salvos Against Big Brother
Anti-DRM Column Delayed
Due to Eric Flint's recent surgery, this column will not appear in this issue. He'll be back next issue.
What's New in The Future And You
June 2009
John Ringo's memories of grade school in Iran; how David Drake and Jim Baen helped Newt Gingrich write the WWII thriller 1945; smart missiles smaller than insects; military tanks becoming robots; and the collapse of the Borders book store chain just before the current economic down turn. It’s been another fascinating round of interviews.
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With David Brin's kind permission Baen's Universe now makes the full text of Shoresteading available for you free of charge.
Shoresteading, Part One Written by David Brin
Shoresteading, Part Two Written by David Brin
Table of Contents, Volume 4, Number 1
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Gorilla My Dreams Full StoryHow strange that such an insignificant little world should matter so much. |
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Leopard Full StoryUnder cover of darkness, Mattie crawled among the grape arbors lining the path across from his parents' cabin. |
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The Resident Full StoryThe house at 94 Twining Lane had a reputation. |
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In the Halls of the Sky-Palace Full StoryThe clack of castanets tapped out a crisp, clear rhythm beneath the smoky torches of the dining hall. |
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Adam, Unwilling Full StoryAmar was drowning. |
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Style Gives Substance Full StoryListen. Here's a story. |
