The Empire Strikes Back!
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A great Fathers’ Day
Some books I read in 2009
Mortar in Albert Lea
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colgaffneyis at the Big Island Rendezvous, Sunday afternoon. twolodge and tmancer were the gunners.
Airships
Airships
The dead hand
Soviets Built a Doomsday Machine; It’s Still Alive
led me to Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine
That’s right, an actual doomsday device—a real, functioning version of the ultimate weapon, always presumed to exist only as a fantasy of apocalypse-obsessed science fiction writers and paranoid über-hawks. The thing that historian Lewis Mumford called “the central symbol of this scientifically organized nightmare of mass extermination.” Turns out Yarynich, a 30-year veteran of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces and Soviet General Staff, helped build one.
Dead Hand is continuously being upgraded.
The dead hand
Soviets Built a Doomsday Machine; It’s Still Alive
led me to Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine
That’s right, an actual doomsday device—a real, functioning version of the ultimate weapon, always presumed to exist only as a fantasy of apocalypse-obsessed science fiction writers and paranoid über-hawks. The thing that historian Lewis Mumford called “the central symbol of this scientifically organized nightmare of mass extermination.” Turns out Yarynich, a 30-year veteran of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces and Soviet General Staff, helped build one.
Dead Hand is continuously being upgraded.
The Short and Violent Life of a Knight in Scotland
From Science Fiction to Colgaffneyis
Convergence is coming soon and colgaffneyis, as usual, will be well represented there. I wonder how many of my fellow members have read Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen. I read it in High School, more than 40 years ago. I was immediately fascinated by the pike-and-shot era, and soon afterwards read Oman to learn something of the real history. I have been reading more ever since. It was all started by science fiction.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 