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Who Was John Campbell?
by on 04-16-2011 at 07:25 PMThat's a good question...I hope this short article will answer it for most people.
To better understand the concept of Campbellian science fiction, one must understand who John Campbell was and how he viewed the genre of Sci-Fi.
John Woods Campbell Jr. began his career in Sci-Fi writing as a young student attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1930 with two stories published in the pulp fanzine of the day Amazing. Oddly enough, his first short story appeared in ...- Tags
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Featured Post from Nikki
Indie Books
by on 10-22-2011 at 08:02 PM
Indie Authors and Bad (or No) Editing
I have noticed a bit of complaining on the internet about indie authors and the sheer volume of them that offer unedited or poorly edited works for sale. I have read comments from both extremes: authors who say they refuse to edit or care (the “What do you want for $.99?” argument) and readers who trash a book over one misspelled word or homophone in the book’s description (these types are typically infatuated with traditional ...- Tags
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Featured Post from Kodai Okuda
Faster Than Light drives of 1st Interplanetary War Era
by on 11-14-2011 at 01:58 AMELECTRO-ELEMENT (DARK ENERGY) BASED DRIVES
Faster-Than-Light travel (or FTL) would have been impossible for mankind had it not been for the discovery of the alien ruins on the various inner planets of Sol and the spacecraft that littered the cluster of Near Earth Objects trailing our planet.
Human science simply did not have the know-how to go beyond simple theories about how a faster than light drive system might work, let alone build one. The discovery of the alien ruins ...Updated 02-04-2012 at 01:08 AM by Kodai Okuda
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Featured Post from Kodai Okuda
History of the mid 21st Century (Nexus Arcana Multiverse)
by on 10-23-2011 at 02:48 AMGeneral History prior to 2048 AD
Economic and political instabilities that had begun in the late 20th Century were carried over into the early 21st. Food and energy shortages caused a vast divide between the wealthy few and the destitute masses all over the earth. This disparity in the standard of living for the average human caused the proletariat and remnant bourgeoisie to revolt against the aristocratic international corporate-banking class and their armies. This rebellion flared ...- Tags
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