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- The Hollowness of Teleportation by Acts of Minor Treason on Nov 21, 2009
Teleportation isn't ubiquitous in science fiction, but it is common enough for its more disturbing properties to get play. Star Trek popularized it, originally as a means to avoid the expensive effects shots that would be required to land the Enterpr...
- Common Words #8: Corona by Acts of Minor Treason on Oct 24, 2009
If you're looking for horrid writing today, than have I got writing for you - my first real story, "Corona," completed on Thursday, June 5, 1997.As it turns out, I've been writing for longer than I can remember. "Corona" was not, by any stretch of re...
- Electronic Ephemera by Acts of Minor Treason on Oct 20, 2009
Today it doesn't seem like it's a race, but a full-on stampede toward the promise of the future, at least as far as shiny technological toys are counted as "the future." In fifteen years, cell phones have gone from brick-sized tchotchkes that only hi...
- Short SF Review #11: "Revolt of the Ants" by Acts of Minor Treason on Oct 18, 2009
"Revolt of the Ants," by Milton KaletskyAppeared in Amazing Stories, April 1940Continuing, the ants said: "We are excellent engineers, architects, agriculturists and herdsmen. We are far better economists than you because every ant has a job and enou...
- Why do lit-ah-rary types look down on SF by The Skwib on Oct 14, 2009
So what is it about science fiction that causes “literary” types to look down upon it? Like any genre, SF has its bad and good. No scratch that, like any writing, there is both bad and good. I’ve read plenty of unreadable “...
- Short SF Review #10: "Blessed Are the Meekbots" by Acts of Minor Treason on Sep 2, 2009
"Blessed Are the Meekbots," by Daniel F. GalouyeAppeared in Imagination, December 1953...For they shall inherit the earth, Paul thought as he conjured up a picture of a world of sloven human idiots sitting idly by as a creeping dementia washed over t...
- To Your Scattered Panels Go: Anticipation SF by Acts of Minor Treason on Aug 25, 2009
For an event oriented toward the world as a whole, it was surprisingly cozy. Anticipation SF - the 67th World Science Fiction Convention - was fairly lightly attended, with only a few thousand people navigating this way and that through the wide and...
