Science Fiction

I just read Robert A. Heinlein’s Double Star. I had read it in Junior High or High school, sometime in the mid-1970s, and I don’t think I’ve read it since.

There Is No Antimemetics Division
by qntm
Random House, 2025
ISBN 9780593983751

If the Allies Had Fallen: Sixty Alternate Scenarios of World War II
Dennis E. Showalter, Harold C. Deutsch, William R. Forstchen
Skyhorse, 2012, ISBN 978-1616085469

Stanislaw Lem wrote Imaginary Magnitude, a highly imaginative book.

A Canticle for Leibowitz is just a great book, one of a kind.

I’ve read Men, Martians and Machines, and another Ace Double with Six Worlds Yonder and The Space Willies. many times since I was a child. The unifying theme here is: written by English sci fi humorist Eric Frank Russell.

I watched the 1953 movie version of War of the Worlds because I read the book.

I read a paper, Are We There Yet? The Jetsons and the City of the Future by Laura Broman. This paper appeared in Spectator, 43:1, Spring, 2023.

A few weeks ago, I visited the local King Soopers (Kroger’s brand name along the Colorado Front Range). There was a guy with a display of books by the customer service desk.

Some years ago, I read Vernor Vinge’s 1992 space opera, A Fire Upon the Deep. It’s a good read, and it has some interesting ideas.