Science Fiction
- THE SKINNER: The Ever-Expanding Polity. Some things still aren’t sufficiently contextualized for the new reader but this is a good intro to Asher’s ~19 volumes in multiple sub-series which make up the super-series.
- Decameron Project is creating communities and writing stories | Patreon. James Cambias has a story for this project which aims to exchange short stories for money for relief of the Italians hit by this modern plague. When linking to a post at The History Blog (which was also about The Decameron) in the last links post, I said I wasn’t going to talk about this much here, but I think this is a reasonable exception.
- Weinbaum’s “The Mad Moon” | Futures Past and Present / Kuttner’s “Endowment Policy” | Futures Past and Present / Wearing The Mask of Circe | Adventures Fantastic. I did Weinbaum’s “Parasite Planet” and Kuttner’s “The Proud Robot” (plus George O. Smith’s “QRM – Interplanetary”) for a “Birthday Review” and here are reviews of two different stories by those authors plus a Kuttner novel.
Science
- The Degenerate Era: When the universe stops making stars | Astronomy.com. Perspective, I guess.
- Scientists calculate age of massive neutron star crash that helped form our solar system | Space. There’s gold in them thar neutron star mergers!
Other
History
- The History Blog » Synchrotron casts light on dino embryos. What, me evolve?
Humor
- Calvin and Hobbes: Father knows best / There’s no time like the future.
Music
Two almost completely different things here…
Ministry, King Crimson And R.E.M. Drummer Bill Rieflin Dies At 59 – Blabbermouth.net. This is getting all-too common.
Ministry – “Just One Fix”
So, for the different, I bring back Sacred Reich with a new (at the time of my adding it to this post) video and some happy thrash:
Sacred Reich – “Salvation”
I bought this CD (Awakening) and, as is usual for Sacred Reich, it’s short, but it’s all killer, no filler. If you haven’t yet, go get it!
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