Mark R. Kelly
» Founder in 1997 and site-runner for 20 years of Locus Online (Hugo Award winner in 2002). Founder in 2012 and still site-runner of sfadb.com (Science Fiction Awards Database). Retired in 2012 after 30 years as a software engineer for a certain rocket engine factory.
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Category Archives: science fiction
Declinists and Decadence: TV/Movies? Science Fiction?
Quillette, Kevin Mims, 20 May 2022: Undiminished by Decadence Subtitle: “I grew up in the 1960s and ’70s and I’m happy to report that, for the most part, television and mainstream cinema today are orders of magnitude better than they … Continue reading
LQCs: Science Fiction, Christian Fantasy, and Part B
Washington Post, Michael Dirda, 10 Jan 2022: Science fiction — please, let’s not call it ‘sci-fi’ — is more than just a reaction to the present
Posted in Religion, science fiction
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LQCs: KSR; Conservative History
NYT, Alexandra Alter, 11 May 2022: A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The Real Story is the One Facing Us.’, subtitled: “Kim Stanley Robinson, one of the most acclaimed living science fiction writers, is done with deep space narratives. His … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Religion, science fiction
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LQCs: News, Propaganda, Ideologies, and a Modern Wise Man
First, two items that follow-up the last item in yesterday’s post. Following, a modern wise one about ideologies.
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, science fiction
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Globalization, Wokeness, and Trek
New York Times, David Brooks, 8 April 2022: Globalization Is Over. The Global Culture Wars Have Begun.
Posted in Politics, Psychology, science fiction
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Arthur C. Clarke, RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA (1973)
This was Clarke’s first novel after “returning” to writing novels after the break of nearly a decade collaborating with Stanley Kubrick on the book and film 2001: A Space Odyssey. (His previous major novel had been A Fall of Moondust … Continue reading
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L&Cs: Yet Another All-Time Novel List
Just discovered, at 4:45pm, that I don’t have time for anything substantial this evening; we’re having guests within half an hour. (Was going to write up Clarke’s RAMA. Maybe tomorrow.) So here’s a kind of link and comment I don’t … Continue reading
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Daniel Keyes: FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON (1966)
Here’s the next part of the batch of brief reviews of SF novels that I began last week. I’m now thinking, though, that with more substantial books like this one I’ll just cover one book per post — back to … Continue reading
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About Changing SF Book Lengths and Formats
Some more SF history, here in drafty first draft; first written last October, cleaned up a bit here. My target for essays like these are the very casual consumers of science fiction books and movies, and even some sophisticated current … Continue reading
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SF Impressions: Chambers, Kowal, McGuire
As I mentioned early last week, I think I’ll start posting short reviews, or impressions, of recent SF novels I’ve read, every month or two, in groups. This is supposedly a blog mostly about science fiction, after all! These won’t … Continue reading
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