In the latest issue of MT VOID (volume 31, number 48, whole number 1756*), in the context of a discussion about "spoilers," Mark Leeper offers advice on film reviewing. I love reading Mark's reviews, so this caught my attention.

One can see that Mark has been influenced by a combination of Hippocrates and Isaac Asimov.
And you are right about ( Read more... )

Ansible led me to Rob Hansen's effort to put online Novae Terrae, Maurice Hanson's classic UK science fiction fanzine; browsing it, I found "Petition for Science" in the February 1937 issue.

Donald G. MacRae, author of the petition, writes:
Those who aren't among our band but who are in agreement with the views as expressed in the petition which ( Read more... )

2008: A Pungent Message
I received a very peculiar e-mail today: an offer to sell a sauce factory. In India. It can also bottle pickles, relishes, and chutneys.

Your opportunity to buy a plant making and bottling sauces, pickles, relishes and chutneys ( Read more... )