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Archive for October, 2009
Is Keanu Reeves a member of Howard family?
Published October 22, 2009 Movies and Television 0 CommentsTags: Keanu Reeves, Lazarus Long, longevity
Heinlein inspires new transportion models
Published October 22, 2009 In the news , Science 0 CommentsTags: road cities, Starman Jones
Via The Register:
Promoters in Las Vegas this week vied to offer the wildest ideas for a new super-fast mass transit link between the desert gambling mecca and Los Angeles. Plans were presented for a “railless” train which would fly through magnetic rings mounted atop pillars and a “sunlight bullet expressway” employing “large air-cushioned hovercraft”.
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Fans of the great Robert Heinlein will recognise some of these ideas. The late sci-fi master wrote long ago of America-spanning “road cities” powered by rooftop solar panels, and also of zooming airborne trains which would soar between tunnels bored through hills (beginning of Starman Jones).
Cool.
New Riverworld project looks worthwhile
Published October 4, 2009 Movies and Television , Other Science Fiction 0 CommentsTags: Peoria, Philip Jose Farmer, Riverwolrd
I was utterly unimpressed with the last Riverworld project that appeared on the SciFi channel. This clip gives me the impression the channel’s second attempt will be a little more faithful to the spirit of the series of science fiction novels written by Peoria’s own Philip Jose Farmer:
Cross posted to Peoria Pundit.
