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Sub-Genre: Ancient Alien Astronauts

Wow. Pretty much all you could wish for in an overview of the ancient astronaut sub-genre of science fiction, which thrived in the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s.  Nathan Schneider’s detailed examination of the phenomenon, which often incorporates an element of technological apocalypse, includes discussion of the Hebrew Bible; Garrett P. Serviss’s Edison’s [...]

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2008 10 30 fantasy Comments (0)

Author Obit: Arthur C. Clarke, 1917-2008

British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke died in in Sri Lanka on 19 March 2008, which, for those of us in the U.S., is tomorrow, which seems appropriate somehow. Clarke was 90 and had published more than 100 fiction and non-fiction books, and the short story The Sentinel, which was made into the film [...]

2008 03 18 non-fiction
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