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The Critics, Lord Love ’Em
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Notes From the Buffer Zone
Stalled Conversations, Global Visions, and the Future
In June, I will complete my 50th year on this Earth.
From The Heart's Basement
The Laxian Key
The guy who pumps gas at the local Shell is genuinely contemplative and thoughtful.
Quarks to Quasars:The Science of Science Fiction
Interstellar Flight: The Not Impossible
In the last column we examined ways of building starships that are almost within our engineering grasp.
What's New in The Future And You
December 2009
How today you can add telomeres to the ends of your chromosomes which may extend your youth by several decades, how today you can sequence your DNA and keep the data private on a thumbdrive, and how today some are striving to ensure that our future AI will be “friendly.”
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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 4 December 2009
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Things Undone Full StoryWith two contracts last spring, both successful, Year of Grace 2014 had already been lucrative by early December; better still, with just over three months left in the year, we had yet another contract. |
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Corpse Vision Full StoryJoe Decker couldn’t remember who poured him into the taxi that brought him to Le Café du Dôme. |
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The Blimp and Sixpence, A Harry the Book Story Full StorySo I am sitting in my office, which is the third booth at Joey Chicago’s 3-Star Tavern, minding my own business, which at this moment is doping out the next day’s races at Aqueduct, when Benny Fifth Street walks up to me. |
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Nowhere Man, Episode One Full StoryBob Peterik thought he was funny. |
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Salvaging Scottwell Full StoryMax woke up inside his kennel, unplugged his tail from the wall, and ran an automatic systems check. |
