My previous post has a great piece of dialog from The Avatar, by Poul Anderson. But that is just barely scratching the surface of this fun book.
At first glance, this appears to be a light-hearted space opera that deals with first contact with an alien species and indeed, one may accept it at that. It [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Space’
August 21, 2009
The Avatar by Poul Anderson
February 12, 2009
Some interesting art
Back in the 1970s, NASA commisioned some studies of space habitats. From this research we got Gerald O’Neal’s famous “Colonies in Space” book as well as engineering design studies from several major universities. In order to visualize some of the designs, they commisioned some artists to show what they might look like. Here are some [...]
December 27, 2008
The Universe is Strange and Beautiful
The Top Ten Weirdest Things in Space are discussed over on the Discovery website. I’m actually wondering what sort of hard science fiction tale could be wrapped around a hyperveloctiy star.
August 20, 2008
Death Star Over San Francisco!
I am amazed at what can be done with computer graphics and some extra time on your hands. My hats are off to the folks that did the “Death Star Over San Francisco”.
August 27, 2007
Sexy Robot Commercial
My thanks to my friend Conscious Object for this lovely video link.
