tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712422114536732670.comments2019-12-08T19:07:34.303-08:00Quark CognitionBryan Singletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03249494094317744520noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712422114536732670.post-77868047234015286822019-12-08T19:07:34.303-08:002019-12-08T19:07:34.303-08:00I just noticed this comment, and yes, your book ha...I just noticed this comment, and yes, your book has been (and still is) useful. Thanks for the comment. These days, I know I've made some interesting discovery when I find an old author that is not listed in your book! Bryan Singletonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03249494094317744520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712422114536732670.post-28455904050474445122017-07-29T06:41:12.846-07:002017-07-29T06:41:12.846-07:00Glad you found my book useful. A few years ago, I ...Glad you found my book useful. A few years ago, I had pitched another book to a publisher which would have been a guide to which SF novels and stories inspired which SF films, with the intention of revealing both well-known and less obvious sources.<br /><br />The fact is, that in cinema, very little SF is original. SF prose writers did almost everything first and did it long before film-makers. SF cinema is more often than not decades behind the original written article - take the forty year gap between Van Vogt and 'Alien' (or the lesser one between Van Vogt and 'It! The Terror From Beyond Space' -written by SF writer Jerome Bixby). Inciddentally, the first part of 'Space Beagle' ("Black Destroyer") also inspired 'Forbidden Planet' - the ID-eating monster - and 'FP' and 'Star Trek' both owe much to 'Space Beagle', not the least Spock, whose ability to logically synthesize ideas is strongly reminiscent of the Nexialist hero of Van Vogt's novel.<br /><br />Stephen E Andrews, author, '100 Must Read Science Fiction Novels'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712422114536732670.post-42189829674447245852016-06-05T21:08:20.172-07:002016-06-05T21:08:20.172-07:00Volcano High, Funny Movie, Tale of Two Sisters and...Volcano High, Funny Movie, Tale of Two Sisters and Shiri were my firsts. Love them like siblings. Eternal Empire swept the Grand Bells, Darcy Pacquet loved it. Surprised you hated it so. Just happy you found The Customer is Always right as perfect as I did. Interesting list.Nekrobombhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13238139715418580513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712422114536732670.post-56904012844751644362016-02-19T02:31:02.688-08:002016-02-19T02:31:02.688-08:00When playing video games, it is really fun to have...When playing video games, it is really fun to have nice sounds and music.<br /><a href="http://www.cinematicscore.com/" rel="nofollow">Adaptive Game Music</a><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06356214012814661584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712422114536732670.post-73513966307791643002014-07-28T06:44:09.006-07:002014-07-28T06:44:09.006-07:00(the snare)(the snare)thornnnnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01230915260854216809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712422114536732670.post-15748022740186602142014-07-28T06:43:26.523-07:002014-07-28T06:43:26.523-07:00please where can i watch and or buy this movie. ...please where can i watch and or buy this movie. i have been looking for it over a year.. it is out of print on amazon!thornnnnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01230915260854216809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712422114536732670.post-50213959462916222292014-05-26T13:26:19.024-07:002014-05-26T13:26:19.024-07:00Thanks for the comment Bill. I would suppose you&#...Thanks for the comment Bill. I would suppose you've read a lot more than I have, which would explain why words I considered difficult were easy for you. Bryan Singletonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03249494094317744520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712422114536732670.post-30245975483884340412014-05-26T13:10:51.966-07:002014-05-26T13:10:51.966-07:00I also have a lot of reading to catch up on. My qu...I also have a lot of reading to catch up on. My queue is vast and that's just what I have managed to physically acquire. All the stuff I don't have I just have to not worry about. It's not a matter of giving up, but one of realizing the brevity of life. Even if I could merely double my life expectancy to 160 years, then that would not be satisfactory. Bryan Singletonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03249494094317744520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712422114536732670.post-74961693521670798972014-05-18T07:44:21.029-07:002014-05-18T07:44:21.029-07:00Arrive at Easterwine is not an easy novel. Some p...Arrive at Easterwine is not an easy novel. Some people love it. Some people hate it. I love it, but de gustibus non disputandum est. I'm more alarmed at the list of words you had to look up, virtually all of which I knew off the top of my head,and many of which are in common usage. I didn't know intramuros (which I looked up and is Latin for "within the walls"), intraficies (OK, ya got me there, but, knowing Lafferty I'd wager it's Latin - it looks Latin), amnestic (which I would have figured out on the fly because its similarity to the root word) and quoit. Faroese is a recognized language in Denmark. (The Islands are owned by Denmark.) Roué (with an accent grave over the e) is used in a song covered by David Bowie for Chrissakes. Cloy is not commonly used, but cloying is often used to describe something sickly sweet. Ex.: "Disney films are unbearable because they are so cloying." Every nature show about eagles seems to mention that they live in aeries. Outré (again, with an accent grave - and no, I don't know how to type that on my US keyboard either but copy/paste enables anything) is in very common usage. I hear it on TV shows all the time. (Castle, et al.) You probably wouldn't be familiar with aestivation unless you have a particular interest in natural history, as I do, but there is nothing wrong with having to look words up. Expansion of your vocabulary is one of the benefits of reading. And none of these words (bearing in mind that I can't speak in defense of intraficies) are sufficiently outré that you would not be enriched by knowing them. Jesus Christ, don't ever try to read Gene Wolfe.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00736646523990103303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712422114536732670.post-89377917928373900092014-03-14T01:22:24.959-07:002014-03-14T01:22:24.959-07:00Very interesting, authoritative read, Joking part...Very interesting, authoritative read, Joking partially, but indeed a good read. I have been caught up in what I suppose I can call life, these past years and haven't been to Soundtrack Central in years as a result, but when I was a frequent visitor long ago, I naturally navigated toward your posts in the open topic forum.<br /><br />Judging from the content, I have a lot of reading to catch up on.<br /><br />Jason MalJason P53https://www.blogger.com/profile/08750154569381063788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712422114536732670.post-12590157876054800942011-08-24T01:01:29.049-07:002011-08-24T01:01:29.049-07:00Think of it this way. You have an object (with mas...Think of it this way. You have an object (with mass) at some time (T), moving at some velocity (V) that is not equal to 0 or c. If the massive object increases its V to c, then you have a problem. Its mass becomes infinite, which makes no sense. Now go backwards. Slow the object down until V = 0. In the world of "velocity", there are two extremes: c and 0. We all know about V = c. <br /><br />But I know nothing about V = 0! All I can do is speculate. My real question is what happens at the other end of velocity? Is it even possible to achieve zero velocity? If you suddenly achieved zero velocity, then, logically, the entire Milky Way galaxy would scream away from your feet at a fantastic velocity, some 552 km/s. Of course, the Milky Way is really big, so it would take a while for its spiral shape to be visible in total. <br /><br />To specifically tackle your question, if the object started out at zero velocity, then I suppose it would not have mass. Mass increases as velocity increases, which implies that something which has a velocity of 0 has a mass of 0. If that were not the case, then there would have to be some arbitrary baseline mass starting value for objects. After thinking about this, the only conclusion I can reach is that zero velocity doesn't make sense for objects that have mass. <br /><br />A massless particle, such as a boson, could achieve zero velocity, I suppose. Photons, for example, don't need to worry about velocity, since they have no mass. All velocities are the same to them and their energy increases with a decrease in wavelength.Bryan Singletonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03249494094317744520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712422114536732670.post-11127604179830006172011-08-23T04:55:45.169-07:002011-08-23T04:55:45.169-07:00This would be an object without energy or mass, co...This would be an object without energy or mass, correct? By definition, can this object even exist, or would we have to redefine the word itself?benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04669238610701332232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2712422114536732670.post-56757505186578042382010-09-20T06:19:07.404-07:002010-09-20T06:19:07.404-07:00_Arrive at Easterwine_ is generally considered to ..._Arrive at Easterwine_ is generally considered to be one of his worst novels. Half the problem is that Lafferty broke the Academy setting across dozens of books and short stories (eg. _Annals of Klepsis_) so half the time you don't know anything about the characters or backstory.gwernhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18349479103216755952noreply@blogger.com