A little game I made in Flash:

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Michael Crichton wrote these between 1966 and 1972 under the pseudonym John Lange.

Binary (Oct. 29, Amazon)

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I've posted scans before from this 1887 book my grandfather had, J.W. Buel's SEA & LAND, a sort of bestiary or 19th century Monster Manual. Here and here.

I was going to scan more pages from it, but the book is crumbling so much that to scan it is to do damage to it.

But somebody else scanned this in:

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Out today in oversized paperback, MAN-KZIN WARS XIII (Amazon). It feels like we've been at war with the Kzinti forever! And I guess we have; Larry Niven's "The Warriors" story came out in 1966, the year I was born, and the first volume of THE MAN-KZIN WARS came out in 1988, volume 12 came out in 2009, and now we're up to volume 13 ( Read more... )

Following up on my post last Sunday about my (admittedly tongue-in-cheek) 2008 computer simulation of the sinking of Titanic, revived on the 100th anniversary of the sinking ( Read more... )

30-second CGI video on vimeo by Jean-Paul Tetu, flythrough of Gaea from John Varley's TITAN-WIZARD-DEMON trilogy (via Varley's webpage)


A short flying thru Titan from jean-paul TETU on Vimeo.

Also, this fan website Gaea, The Mad Titan has some interesting CGI views of Gaea.

I've posted previously here about the SPACE CONQUERORS! comic strip serial that ran in BOYS' LIFE magazine from 1952-1972.

There was also a series of Time Machine short stories that ran 1959-1989. In December I posted about the December 1973 Christmas story.

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Emperor of the North is a strange 1973 movie (IMDB, wikipedia) directed by Robert Aldrich (The Dirty Dozen). Originally titled Emperor of the North Pole, but probably renamed because people were mistaking it for a Santa Claus movie. Starring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and Keith Carradine, it's set in the Great Depression in the 1930s, and ( Read more... )

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I recently discovered this odd 1898 bootleg pastiche sequel of War of the Worlds, titled Edison's Conquest of Mars, as mentioned in this post. It was serialized in American newspapers. The full text is here on Project Gutenberg, complete with illustrations. Also here's the wikipedia entry.

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