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Year 2009

 

Rate A History of 16 Science Fiction Classics, Told In Book Covers

Original at io9 external link    Tue, Nov 17

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By Lauren Davis Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham: The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham: Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein: I, Robot by Isaac Asimov: John Carter of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Neuromancer by William Gibson: The Space Merchants by by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth:

Rate Several members of the Jones River Writers are pictured at their ...

Original at wickedlocal.com external link    Fri, Jul 17

Later on Roland would encounter and enjoy I. Asimov, R. Bradbury, R. Heinlein, and HP Lovecraft. When Roland was in his early 20's his father also ...

Rate The Geek Beat: Cast Not the First Stone ...

Original at Cinematical external link    Tue, Jun 9

 CA We'd be seeing Asimov, Heinlein, Bradbury and LeGuin snatched up and adapted as quickly as we're seeing television shows and the 1980s remade. But we're not the masses, and sci-fi languishes unadapted on bookshelves because it's still seen as a niche ...

Rate Seven billion superheroes: Has the 'third wave' overtaken us already?

Original at Thought Leader external link    Mon, Jun 8

 South Africa As with much of modern physics and science in which the likes of Arthur C Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov and Philip K Dick did most of the original imagining that modern astrophysicists and applied mathematicians are turning from science fiction ...

Rate Sawyer gives Internet a brain

Original at www2.canada.com external link    Sat, May 2

 Canada - Robert Sawyer He has won himself an international readership by reinvigorating the traditions of "hard" science fiction, following the path of such writers as Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein in his bold speculations from pure science.

Rate Book Review: Wake by Robert J. Sawyer

Original at network.nationalpost.com external link    Fri, Apr 17

 Canada He has won himself an international readership by reinvigorating the traditions of “hard” science fiction, following the path of such writers as Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein in his bold speculations from pure science. ...

Rate The Geek Beat: A Sci-Fi Renaissance

Original at Cinematical external link    Tue, Apr 14

 CA Science fiction has always played in both ends of the pool, and we've seen the finest examples of the genre come from both sides. The possibilities of a sci-fi renaissance is, well, endless. Oh, to see adaptations of Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, ...

Rate More Cultural Literacy: A Reading List for Beginners

Original at Lew Rockwell external link    Thu, Apr 9

 CA 91. Isaac Asimov, Foundation series: the most critically acclaimed science fiction of the 20th century. However, most libertarians will probably prefer Robert Heinlein to the collectivist Asimov. 92. George Orwell, 1984: totalitarian state fighting ...

Rate Book review: 'We'll Always Have Paris,' by Ray Bradbury

Original at Boulder Daily Camera external link    Fri, Apr 3

 CO At 89, he's the last of the great ABC's of science fiction: Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke are gone (as is the H one must add to the list -- Heinlein). In truth, he's rarely been a writer of true SF. He's a romantic and a far-traveler, ...

Rate Unchained success

Original at Boston Globe external link    Thu, Apr 2

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 United States They had a larger selection of science fiction and fantasy, and they had a larger selection of psychology and self-help." Booksmith has added a third bookcase of science fiction and has reinstated classics by Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov. ...

Rate Science fiction and fact in Seattle

Original at Examiner.com external link    Fri, Mar 20

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ongoing legacy to science fiction. Beginning in 1996, four new individuals have been inducted each year. The roster includes such luminaries as authors Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Arthur Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Frank Herbert, ...

Rate Science fiction writer Philip Jose Farmer dies

Original at Sandusky Register external link    Tue, Mar 10

  USA One of my favorite science fiction writers, Philip Jose Farmer, died on Feb. 25. He was never as famous are other vintage SF writers such as Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein or Arthur C. Clarke, but he had a devoted following. ...

Rate Seattle (front and) Center

Original at Bend Bulletin external link    Sun, Mar 8

 OR The roster includes such luminaries as Isaac Asimov (“I, Robot”), Ray Bradbury (“Fahrenheit 451”), Edgar Rice Burroughs (“Tarzan of the Apes”), Arthur C. Clarke (“2001: A Space Odyssey”), Robert Heinlein (“Stranger in a Strange Land”), Frank Herbert ...

Rate Saturn's Children: Stross's robopervy tribute to the late late ...

Original at Boing Boing external link    Mon, Nov 10

By Cory Doctorow It's one that neither Heinlein, nor Asimov (the other author to whom the book is dedicated -- as is only proper, given Asimov's prominence in society's conception of what a robot is) managed. This is a fabulous book, a witty and deep ...

Rate Music Review: Glen Phillips - Secrets of the New Explorers EP

Original at Blogcritics external link    Thu, Oct 23

 OH - Oct 24, 2008 He says "I grew up reading Heinlein, Herbert, Asimov, and my dad's collection of Amazing Stories and Astounding Science Fiction Magazines. ...

Rate Spotlight Review Space Doubles the Trade Paperback

Original at Comics And...Other Imaginary Tales external link    Thu, Aug 28

By Jim I’ma science fiction fan and grew up loving Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein and other authors. I have enjoyed Farscape, Star Trek and their ilk, but I have missed having a show like the Outer Limits, that was often one part science ...

Year 2007

 

Rate Stranger in a Strange Land

Original at MetaFilter external link    Fri, Jul 6

By infini 7/7/7 marks the 100th birthday of Grandmaster Robert Anson Heinlein, born July 7th 1907. Long live Lazarus Long! While any attempt at a tribute would but naturally turn into a passionate link infested paean to this visionary genius, one of the Big 3, along with Asimov and Clarke, one must h...

Rate Two sci-fi books from Madsen Pirie

Original at Samizdata.net external link    Fri, Jun 22

By Alex Madsen Pirie has just had two children's stories published. He says that fantasy and science fiction at the children's level is now nearly all fantasy about elves, warlocks, magic swords and supernatural powers. He prefers writers like Heinlein, Asimov and Clarke, who followed the rule...

Rate Another SF Book Meme

Original at KG's Booklog external link    Thu, Feb 1

Heinlein or Asimov? Asimov Magazine: Asimov's Science Fiction or Fantasy & Science Fiction? Never read either Collection (short stories by the same author) or Anthology (short stories by different authors)? Eh, I read so little short fiction it doesn't matter.

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