From the Department of Toon Physics...
How Word Ballons Are Formed.
Posted by Glenn Hauman on 05.27.03 @ 12:47 PM ET [link] [No Comments]

Would this be considered Holy Ground in a "Highlander" movie?
The inflatable church. that holds sixty people. Next up for designer Michael Gill, an inflatable pub.
Posted by Victoria McManus on 05.14.03 @ 12:27 PM ET [link] [No Comments]

We'll know that SF is tapped out when you need a degree to get a job in it...
...on the other hand, a little edification couldn't hurt.

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ONLINE SCIENCE FICTION COURSE

June 30-August 8, 2003
University of Connecticut

Instructor: Leigh Grossman
e-mail: english217@swordsmith.com

This course traces major themes and concepts in science fiction from the Golden Age writers of the 1930s, through the New Wave of the 1960s and 1970s, to the present day. You will read works by Asimov, Bradbury, Heinlein, Clarke, Delany, Dick, Le Guin, and other seminal writers-- some still well-known and some almost forgotten-- and learn about their impact on the field. Mostly, the course traces the development and impact of particular ideas in speculative fiction, along with the relationship of science fiction literature to other genres and other media. The state of the SF publishing field today-- including the dramatic editorial and demographic shifts of the last 10 years, and some of the most important current writers-- will also be an ongoing focus of the course.

READING LIST:

A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller

Fool's War, Sarah Zettel

The Price of the Stars, Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald

The Forever War, Joe Haldeman

I, Robot, Isaac Asimov

Startide Rising, David Brin

Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep), Philip K. Dick

Expendable, James Alan Gardner

Modern Classics of Science Fiction, Gardner Dozois, ed.

The SFWA Grand Masters Volume 1, Frederik Pohl, ed.

The SFWA Grand Masters Volume 2, Frederik Pohl, ed.

To register, go to:
http://continuingstudies.uconn.edu/specialsessions/Summer_2003/index.html
You will need the following information:
Class #: 2110
Campus: STORR
Dept. ENGL
Course number: 217
Section: 921
Posted by Glenn Hauman on 05.10.03 @ 01:08 AM ET [link] [No Comments]

24 and the 25th Amendment
Jeff Cooper has a rundown here on the deposing of President Palmer.
Posted by Glenn Hauman on 05.08.03 @ 11:43 PM ET [link] [No Comments]