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: Harry Harrison wouldn't be considered new wave, I really liked his stainless steel rat, I guess Norman Spinrad would. 'Bug Jack Barron' being a particularly prescient offering,: Re; into Darkness' it seems to be a mash up of 'Khan' which is the best of the Trek films, with the unneccesary Iraq analogy, Starfleet trying to go into Khronos, the Klingon homeworld.
: Did you see it or are you just going on reviews? As for BJ Barron I never got to it, but it seems to have some of the main concerns of New Wave and post-New Wave SF that game and visual-narrative media never get to or maybe can never get to.: I did an composite analysis of the reviews, I actually read Bug Jack Barron, many moons ago,: Peter Weller's Admiral Marcus, is really Enterprise's 'Colonel Green' in another uniform, and he's supposed to evoke another belligerent policy maker with a Navy background,: I found this, re the New Wave retrospective;
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- CK MacLeod:
Just wanted to ad a link to the recent article on the subject of that comment: http://opinionator.blogs.nytim es.com/2013/03/30/king-cottons -long-shadow/ The argument is a relatively... - miguel cervantes:
I come from a country much more inmeshed in that economy till the mid 19th century remember, being very agrarian, and it is predominantly non white, ruled by a very pale...
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bob:
indeed http://youtu.be/zX9RVI0vaDs
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- CK MacLeod:
Good stuff. - miguel cervantes:
About one of your favorite authorities http://www.nationalobserver.ne t/2003_spring_109.htm
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Libertarianism entails a minimal state, mostly those spelled out in the constitution, ‘negative liberties’ anarchism is about total demolition, which has almost... - CK MacLeod:
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Could be, though it ain’t wut I writed.
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Last Five
made it through 1:03
but I wuz skeered
po lil skeerdy phrog
ever hear of a left-coast psycho logist named Jeffrey Kaye?
if you do hear from him, it’ll be cause I reported this as torture.
Only Jeffrey Kaye I knew of was a reporter who did a lot of PBS, not sure if he’s still active.
What can I say, I’m feeling kind of freeky-punk-kitschy-techno tonight.