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  Varley - Rolling Thunder         


Author: lal_truckee
Date: Mar 31, 2008 11:09

Just finished Rolling Thunder.

I like Varley (particularly the Eight Worlds stories.) Rolling Thunder
is - as everyone has pointed out, Varley doing a Heinlein juvenile with
sex thrown in and as such it's quite good. The funny thing is that while
having 40 years of scientific advance at his fingertips Varley's
"bubble" drive unaccountably doesn't seem as "real" as Heinlein's "torches."

But that's not why I post:
Clearly Varley intends Rolling Thunder to be in the Heinlein juvenile
genre, to the point of making homage to the Heinlein titles by using
them as phrases throughout the book, several in the last paragraph.

Query: Are all the Heinlein juveniles represented? I don't remember
Rocketship Galileo, Space Cadet, Star Beast, nor Starship Troopers but
did catch Farmer in the Sky and a I think all others. Are all represented?

Query: Did Varley do the same thing in the earlier books of the series
and I just missed it?
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  DM makes The 10 Most Prophetic Sci-Fi Movies Ever         


Author: Christopher X. Candreva
Date: Mar 31, 2008 10:14

Popular Mechanics has Destination :Moon as number 5 on their list of "The 10
Most Prophetic Sci-Fi Movies Ever"

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/reviews/4256186.html?page=6

They also seem to think the movie suffers from too much realisim. They also
fine "The premise of the movie-private investors banding together to build
the first manned moon rocket-is obviously dopey." I don't think that is
obvious at all, given that the whole concept of a incorporating came about
to colonize America.

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  Speaking of art...         


Author: Chris Zakes
Date: Mar 30, 2008 19:00

I ran across the following earlier today:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LHoyB81LnE

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=396749&in_page_id...

-Chris Zakes
Texas

Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

-Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God"
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  For those using Google Groups         


Author: Nuclear Waste
Date: Mar 30, 2008 17:26

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  Spung! Spung? Hmmmmm .....         


Author: Just.A.Newbie
Date: Mar 27, 2008 06:49

Charles Stross on his next novel:

"So I set out to write a modern late-period Heinlein novel. You've got
to play by the Heinlein rules. To be canonical, it has to have a red-
headed heroine with a nipple that goes 'spung.' This was a first...
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  Endeavour's home and dry         


Author: Vance P. Frickey
Date: Mar 26, 2008 18:56

Space Shuttle USS Endeavor just made a nighttime landing at Cape
Canaveral, Florida about 25 minutes ago.
Word is that we may get six missions in this year. That'd be the
first time since 2001 that we've flown that many STS missions in a
year.
I'm highly gruntled.
--
Vance P. Frickey

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the
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-- Socrates

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