“[James] Tiptree was part of science fiction’s ‘New Wave’ to roughly the same extent that the Allman Brothers Band was part of the British Invasion.” – Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Day: August 16, 2006
From The Onion on Pulse:
“What was dreadful and trance-like in the original feels here like nothing-much-at-all sandwiched between some stock horror jolts.”
“Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.” – Douglas Adams
Lost in space, on Earth: NASA loses moon landing tapes:
NASA no longer knows the whereabouts of the original tapes of man’s first landing on the moon nearly 40 years ago, an official of the US space agency said.
Pluto to Get Partners? New Definition of “Planet” Proposed:
Many scientists have long argued that it was a mistake to call Pluto a planet, since it is much smaller than the other eight generally accepted planets.