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About Looking Backward From Tomorrow: 21st Century SF
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Are you passionate about the future & Sci Fi's place in it? Do you enjoy talking about the impact of new discoveries in science & their effect on SF? Do you like to argue & defend your position? If you find these questions interesting, this is the place for you. Come & join in.
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Welcome to 21st Century SF
This group is being created as a subgroup of the Science Fiction Group. Everyone is welcome to join & post but this is not a group for the timid. Expect to debate & defend your position, pa...
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posted by Niki50
Incredible Space Photos
This isn't science fiction, I know; but I thought the group might enjoy these photos taken from the ISS by NASA astronaut Douglas Wheelock; here's the link: view link
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posted by officerripley
Revelations In the Mail
After winning third place in Sci Fi/Fantasy at the Northwest Writers Conference ( 1200 manuscripts accepted [an unbelievable number rejected because they didn't follow the rules], 8 manuscripts nam...
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posted by LenRobertson
The Event?
Has anybody heard much about NBC's upcoming series, The Event (I think it's called)? Wonder what it's about? (I know: I can always google it; but I figure hearing about it from Eonsians will give m...
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posted by officerripley
Three Planets Needed To Prove Extraterrestrials
Three planets are needed to prove the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations because the political, social and economic repercussions will be huge. Especially at a time when future shock overl...
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posted by LenRobertson
A Cave of Snakes
These are two of the paragraphs I found of special interest in the article Signs of Life in The Economist, April 17-23, page 89.
“Dick Carrigan, a retired particle physicist has enumerated severa...
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posted by LenRobertson
What Will It Take To Confirm Life Elsewhere?
What will it take to confirm life elsewhere in the Cosmos? It all depends on who you ask. A microbiologist says confirmation of water (preferably liquid) is all he or she needs. Others would only a...
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posted by LenRobertson
Science Fact or Science Fiction
My interest is primarily Sci Fi because I believe its optimistic futurism helps people understand that they have nothing to fear about tomorrow. Or, it did until the 1970's. As I have said in the p...
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posted by LenRobertson
Not Everything Becomes Partisan
Yesterday as my wife shopped for a few things, I found myself near one of the clerks who looked rather sour. "Not many in the store," I said.
The clerk looked at me curiously.
"It'll be better in...
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posted by LenRobertson
Unexpected Wild Cards In History
Human history seldom plays out the way prognosticators imagine. For the longest time, the culture class between the urban cultures and the horse cultures remained the wild card. Sometimes, the urba...
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posted by LenRobertson
