“Ansible,” a crazy Brit sci-fi email newsletter, is one of very few I subscribe to. Today’s issue says that the incomplete biog of sci-fi great Robert L. Forward is now online. Forward is perhaps best known for Dragon’s Egg.
Forward’s neutron star physics and exo-biology are spot-on–he’s a hard-sci-fi master–and _Dragon’s Egg_ also has some of the wackiest, most convincing alien sex scenes ever.
Want more alien sex? You may get a bang out of the species with 3 genders in _The Gods Themselves_ by Asimov.
I met a bunch of great Boston-area bloggers Thursday at Dave Winer’s Harvard blog meeting:
- http://www.scripting.com/ “Scripting News: Dave Winer’s weblog about scripting and stuff like that”
- Dave was there fixing our blogs and having fun with subjects from Chinese households to NH primaries.
- http://radio.weblogs.com/0120875/ “Shiny Glass Beads: Shiny Glass Beads:
Pay it forward: Got a penny? Leave a penny. Need a penny? Take a penny.” - Critt Jarvis blogs about politics, collaborations, and of course blogging. Lots of good snips and links.
- http://critt.weblogger.com “One Co-Intelligence Avenue/
Exploring wholeness, interconnectedness, and co-creativity” - A new group blog where Critt Jarvis will be a contributing writer.
- http://www.castleblack.net/mikeb/ “Castle Black: It Made Sense at the Time”
- Michael Booth’s blog–here is just one insightful quote:
“It is okay, within limits, to talk about an absent person, but when someone is in the room you are supposed to either invite them into the conversation or leave them out of it. The problem with the Web is that the whole world is in the room, so you can’t really talk behind anyone’s back.”
- http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/stanleyc/“Stanley’s Weblog: Technology investing is my thing”
- Stanley Cohen’s new blog invites comments on micro-cap stocks and broadband strategies.
- http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/natureisprofligate/“Nature is Profligate or so it seems… “
- Amity Wilczek is a Harvard biology grad student, who blogs about some wide-ranging bio interests with wit and a lot of fun pictures. Disclosure: I do aleady know her, because she’s my daughter.
- Jamie, Mike, and some others whose names I don’t know
- Start up your weblogs soon!
p.s. Most blogs link to the Daily Show’s own Bush versus Bush debate; I couldn’t get their plug-in to work. That’s why I linked yesterday to a different 12.4 M mov. version