IN THIS ISSUE
17 Vol 3 Num 5 February 2009
Departments
Resources
![Universe trucker hat [Advertisement]](http://www.baensuniverse.com/images/JBU_hat.gif)
Other Issues
RSS Feeds
Conventions
Columns
Salvos Against Big Brother
Foam and Froth and Mighty (Upside-down) Pyramids
Beginning with this essay, I want to start looking at the question of DRM and modern copyright laws from a different standpoint than I’ve taken so far.
Notes From the Buffer Zone
Short Story Collections
Recently, a former student of mine and I exchanged e-mails about short story collections.
From The Heart's Basement
Master of the Abyss
"This man" Jonathan Lethem said, pointing to me at the rear of the room in which his Readercon Guest of Honor interview was taking place, "had a direct hookup thirty-five years ago to the outcome of the space agency. Astronauts driving cross-country in diapers to speed along a murder plot. The crazy collapse of it all."
Past Masters
Cyril With an M (or, I'm As Kornbluth as Kansas in August)
With this, my first installment of Past Masters for Baen's Universe (the eleventh overall, with the previous ten residing in the Helix SF archives if you're interested), I've reached something of a milestone.
Quarks to Quasars:The Science of Science Fiction
Galactic Geobiology
Last time we asked “Where is everybody?” and found that it’s not enough to seek extraterrestrial intelligence per se: we ought to be looking for ETs who are more or less at the same level of technology that we are.
What's New in The Future And You
January 2009
Alan Dean Foster, Jerry Pournelle and the Italian transhumanist, Stefano Vaj: interviewing brilliant and fascinating people is a good way to return to normalcy after shoulder surgery put my right arm (my computer-mouse arm) out of commission for the entire month of November 2008.
Events
-
There are currently no planned events.
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 3 Number 5 Feb 2009
 |
Astralis Full StoryIn the muted light that occurs once a century when the Three Sisters all shine full upon the Great Plaza of Astralis, a man stands within a tall and graceful tower and before a mirror of silver eternaglass nearly as old as the fabled walls of Astralis itself, those ramparts of gray granite bleached almost as white as marble over the long generations under the unforgiving glare of Soleilgrand. |
 |
Food for Thought Full StoryHypnotized by the motion, Mergoyn watched as the array of vibroneedles traveled inexorably toward Wosbel's skull. |
 |
The Good Son Full StoryI don't just want to be with you. |
 |
Johnny So Long At the Fair Full StoryOn his fourth birthday Johnny Glover had his first trip to the Big Smoke, but despite his mother’s insistence that the Outback air was clearer than Melbourne’s, he still didn’t understand why his father called the city that—he had yet to see a fire anywhere. |
 |
Blade Light, Episode One Full StoryThe children danced like daffodils in a spring breeze; Tuck gazed with horror at his impending doom. |
 |
Riders of the Three-Toed Horse Full Story"I'll be damned." |
 |
Five Famous Authors do Public Appearances in Second Life Full Story“I really enjoyed my appearance in Second Life,” Robert J. Sawyer said, “and I mean that both literally and figuratively. Literally, my appearance was buff, with muscles and hair, the former of which I've never had much of and the latter of which has long been gone. Figuratively, the appearance was a blast: I was there to talk about my novel Rollback, which, in its way, is a transhumanist/extropian novel—about radical life extension. So, I was preaching to the converted, and they were a very friendly lot.” |
