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Sympathy for the Moon: Going Underground: The City Where People Continue To Live In Caves
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Sympathy for the Moon. David Thorpe's musings on writing and current affairs. Tuesday, April 14, 2015. Going Underground: The City Where People Continue To Live In Caves. Nottingham Rock Cemetery c. On a recent weekend I took a small tour of some of the tunnels under Nottingham as research for my next novel, which is partly set in the city; and one of the main characters is, for a while, forced to live in the caves. It was a fascinating experience. Nottingham is most famous for being the city of Robin Ho...
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Sympathy for the Moon: February 2015
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Sympathy for the Moon. David Thorpe's musings on writing and current affairs. Friday, February 06, 2015. Can Imagination Change the World for the Better? Ever since 1962 when both Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. And JG Ballard's The Drowned World. Number one in his 'disaster quartet') were published, tens of thousands of non-fiction but perhaps only scores of fiction titles have addressed environmental and, specifically, climate change-related issues. Identified as a new label by the journalist Dan Bloom.
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S C I - F I - F L O W: Suggested Books And Movies
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S C I - F I - F L O W: Closest Encounter with Jupiter until 2022
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Blog On The Grid. The Future Of Science Fiction. Sci-fi Around The World. Suggested Books And Movies. Saturday, September 18, 2010. Closest Encounter with Jupiter until 2022. Been outside at midnight lately? There's something you really need to see. Jupiter is approaching Earth for the closest encounter between the two planets in more than a decade- and it is dazzling. Amateur astronomers have recently reported a surprising number of. In Jupiter's atmosphere. Apparently, many small asteroids or comet...
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S C I - F I - F L O W: Robot Invasion Welcomed in Japan
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Blog On The Grid. The Future Of Science Fiction. Sci-fi Around The World. Suggested Books And Movies. Saturday, September 18, 2010. Robot Invasion Welcomed in Japan. TOKYO — Could it be that the Japanese view of robots as friendly helpers — and not as the rebellious, violent machines that populate much of Western science fiction — is rooted in the Shinto religion, which blurs the boundaries between animate and inanimate? If so, how do you prove it? And when will it arrive? 8220;I’m fascinated by th...
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June | 2010 | messier object
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Messier object: what’s the deal here? Messier object: hector me. Who is this guy. Time to Eat the Dogs. The old, weird america. Also she dreamed she danced with bears:. It's your misfortune. When pico met sepulveda. A journey 'round my skull. Arthur c. clarke. Deep space in particular. Frank herbert is nuts. Heinlein: what a dick. Man will conquer space soon! Museums in the future. Paul e garber prsf. Shaq's on twitter. Web two point boring. Why are you doing this to me. 2010, June 17, 12:39 am.
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(Don’t) “go the distance, Ray.” | Space Cynics (yep, we're back!)
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Space Cynics (yep, we're back! A view of alt.space from those who won't drink the kool-aid. What is a Space Cynic? Old Space Cadet’s View. The “Money Cynic’s” View. Want to be a Guest Commenter? Don’t) “go the distance, Ray.”. August 9, 2014. Posted by shubber in Uncategorized. If you’re old enough to remember the line, you know how this movie turns out. 8220;Space may be the final frontier,. But it’s made in a hollywood basement.”. The Red Hot Chili Peppers. NO ONE was interested. 8220;But the fact that...
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November | 2011 | messier object
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Messier object: what’s the deal here? Messier object: hector me. Who is this guy. Time to Eat the Dogs. The old, weird america. Also she dreamed she danced with bears:. It's your misfortune. When pico met sepulveda. A journey 'round my skull. Arthur c. clarke. Deep space in particular. Frank herbert is nuts. Heinlein: what a dick. Man will conquer space soon! Museums in the future. Paul e garber prsf. Shaq's on twitter. Web two point boring. Why are you doing this to me. Do i ever need to update this.
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Sympathy for the Moon: August 2015
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Sympathy for the Moon. David Thorpe's musings on writing and current affairs. Friday, August 07, 2015. Using Suspense to Mess With Narrative Structure. So how do you make suspense work? I'll tell you later. First, the necessary info:. Now, a flashback:. Why should it be that editors and agents think that readers in the age range from older children to young adults are looking for something other than stories with a traditional structure of beginning, middle and end, in that order? Writers nowadays have t...
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Sympathy for the Moon: Children's publishing is growing - the message from the Children's Writers and Illustrators Group Conference
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Sympathy for the Moon. David Thorpe's musings on writing and current affairs. Sunday, September 16, 2012. Children's publishing is growing - the message from the Children's Writers and Illustrators Group Conference. I thoroughly enjoyed yesterday at the Children's Writers and Illustrators Group Conference. Talking of which, there was much discussion over the extent to which series like this distort the market for other authors and types of book. In the session on ‘What shall I put in my book? The story g...