heinleinblog

A blog about science fiction, in honor of Robert A. Heinlein, the first grandmaster of science fiction

Best. Promo. EVAR.

September 17th, 2010 · No Comments

This is in German, but you don’t need to understand trhe language to grok this commercial. And the Master was quite fond of Star Trek.

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A little nothing-to-do-with Heinlein-really eye candy

January 4th, 2009 · 4 Comments

So, I was watching the Star Trek episode “Who Mourns for Adonais”  tonight and fell in love again with the lovely Leslie Parrish. Here is an early publicity still: And here is one of her wearing that crazy outfit from the show: It’s my second favorite Star Trek costume. First favorite: Yvonne Craig’s Orion slave [...]

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Geeking out over new Star Trek trailer

November 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I offer no apologies. Robert Heinlein was fond of Star Trek. And this site is about science fiction in general, and RAH in general. So here’s a HD version of the latest trailer for the upcoming J.J. Abrams directed Star Trek prequel. Woo Hoo! And the New York Times has a pretty good article about [...]

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Life is getting more like Star Trek every day

June 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Via Livescience.com: The concept of a superlens came originally from Sir John Pendry in 2000 – although Milton and his colleagues Nicolae Nicorovici and Ross McPhedran conducted closely related studies back in 1994 – and the concept has been studied extensively. Yet no one had realized the cloaking properties until they were discovered through the [...]

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