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https://scifi.radio/2024/05/19/trailer-park-ultraman-rising/ Ultraman is back in "Ultraman: Rising", but with one giant problem: a 35-foot-tall baby kaiju thinks he's mama.
Ultraman: Rising returns the popular Japanese superhero with one big change. He’s adopted the orphaned daughter of a kaiju.
For all you creatives who have been running your own Wordpress sites and have been using Jetpack Stats to help track your site traffic, you've just gotten a nastygram from Automattic: pay them $9 a month or you can kiss your traffic stats goodbye. This has been free for nearly two decades, and now all of the sudden they're pulling the rug out.
HERE IS HOW TO GET AROUND IT. Turn OFF the fancy new stats style and go back to the OLD one. If you do that, you get your stats back for free. I think they're betting on most people not being resourceful enough to experiment.
https://scifi.radio/2023/12/21/we-should-regulate-a-i-out-of-existence-quick/
“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of cr…
https://scifi.radio/2023/12/16/book-review-the-fairy-bargains-of-prospect-hill-by-rowenna-miller/
The ability to make bargains with the supernatural is a compelling notion. Whether the bargain is made with a jar of graveyard dirt, cat bones, a photograph, and yarrow buried at a crossroads, or t…
No. Because not only couldn't we afford Morgan Freeman, we couldn't afford a Morgan Freeman impersonator. We're just a listener supported station. That doesn't inherently imply big production budgets.
So, yes, we could use your help. Come be a patron. Maybe we'll get someday.
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No. Because not only couldn't we afford Morgan Freeman, we couldn't afford a Morgan Freeman impersonator. We're just a listener supported stat...
It is with heavy hearts that we must inform you of the death of Eric Flint at the age of 75. No cause of death has yet been published.
Engineered Arts presents robots that take the art to the next level, but as impressive as it is, it’s getting a little creepy, too.
Researchers at the University of Glasgow create a system that uses jets of air called “aerohaptics”, allowing users to actually feel a hologram.
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. (SFWA) announced the finalists for the 56th Annual Nebula Awards® on March 15, 2021. Best Novel Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury US; Blo…
The New Shepard Capsule seats up to six people, and is built for space tourism. Oh, and the New Glenn launch vehicle stuck its landing. Watch.
One of the greatest lights in the science fiction writing community has gone out.
An iPhone, a thousand dollar pocket DNA sequencer and some open source software makes the world’s first mobile genome sequence analyzer.
Project Northmoor is a crowdfunding project aimed at transforming J.R.R. Tolkien’s Oxford home into a tribute to Tolkien’s life and work.
Gaiman has been awarded the 2020 Forrest J. Ackerman award for lifetime achievement.
Awarded by the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, Susan is only the ninth female to win the Evans-Freehafer Award since it was first granted in 1959.
The historic and iconic radio telescope has sustained damage deemed to be unrepairable.
A new survey suggests that the pivotal book by Isaac Newton was much more widely distributed than anybody realized.
The World Fantasy Convention is the annual gathering of professionals and serious-minded fans in the fantasy genre.
It doesn’t look so spectacular, does it? Just a bunch of little white dots. Then it starts to sink in as to exactly what you’re looking at.
Miguel Ayuso Parrilla, a physics student in Madrid, studied the Boston Dynamic quadruped and designed his own – and it works!
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WHO IS THADDEUS HOWZE?
Part-Time Destroyer of Worlds
Polymath, Author, Curator, Activist, Technologist, Futurist, Editor, Moderator, Teacher, Lunatic, Pod-caster, Artist, Critic, Analyst, Comic Historian, Science Enthusiast, part-time Dragon, full-time Father.
"He is likened unto a force of nature like the sun or gravity. Intense, inescapable, all-consuming. Beautiful and terrifying in equal measure. No better ally have I known, no fiercer foe could I ever imagine."
"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes." -- Walt Whitman
Thaddeus Howze is the Answer-Man!
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Desperately Seeking Cerberus: When Hades wakes to find Cerberus no longer guarding the Gates to the Underworld, he is forced to visit the living world, a thing he feels best watched on his 82" widescreen television. The world is under assault and forces long slumbering are awake in the world. Hades just wants his dog back.
Pandemic Earth: A curation of the finest and latest articles regarding the coronavirus. There are also interviews, essays, videos, educational tools and conversations from around the world discussing this existential threat.
Comiclore: A collection of essays on superheroes, comics, anime and genre films.
Krypton Radio: A geek enthusiast website filled with music, soundtracks, radio plays, and articles on a variety of subjects, and where the Answer-Man hangs his shingle.
The Good Men Project: A climate activist, Thaddeus Howze, has entered his second year of his weekly podcast detailing the challenges of climate change on the worldwide stage in his podcast, Climate Change by the Elements.
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Fyrecon is awarding one scholarship per each Master Workshop, along with four general admission passes (two for artists and two for writers).
The theme for this year is the names of the Fyrecon’s color palette. Color names are inspired by nature, imagination, and everything around us. We hope that the colors and their names spark you to write and create great works
You can find the colors listed here:
https://www.fyrecon.com/scholarships/
Entries due Oct 15, 2020
Writers entry
For a Fyrecon Writer Scholarship submit both:
Part 1 – Story: A flash fiction of 500 word or less that includes at least 2 of the color name from fyrecon’s color palatte.
Part 2 – Needs Statement: An explanation of your financial and life circumstances to help us understand why a scholarship would help you.
or
Artists Entry
For a Fyrecon Artist Scholarship submit both:
Part 1 – Art: A Science Fiction or Fantasy art piece that includes at least 2 of the Fyrecon colors listed above and a neon sign.
Part 2 – Needs Statement: An explanation of your financial and life circumstances to help us understand why a scholarship would help you.
Jemison is the first author to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel three yers in a row for all three books in a trilogy.
Phosphine gas, usually made by biological processes, shouldn’t be in the atmosphere of Venus – but it is.
The new imprint comes out swinging with two best sellers.
“My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. When things get strange, when what goes bump in the night flicks on the lights, when no one else can help you…
Grudge is a Maine c**n, the pet cat of new cast member Cleveland “Book” Booker, played by English actor David Ajala.
THE MAINE SEQUENCE | XKCD
A modern and condensed guide to stellar evolution.
https://xkcd.com/2354/
The trilogy by Liu Cixin tells the story of humanity’s first contact with an alien civilization.
The annual awards event, sponsored by Locus Magazine, acknowledges the best in science fiction and fantasy.
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