A Stylish 2,000-Year-Old Roman Shoe Found in a Well
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A Stylish 2,000-Year-Old Roman Shoe Found in a Well
When the Romans pushed their way north into the German provinces, they built (circa 90 AD) the Saalburg, a fort that protected the boundary between the Roman Empire and the Germanic tribal territories.OC (Openculture.com)
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Useful Expedient: Expelling Iran’s Ambassador To Australia - Oriental Review
Why Iran would ever bother to expend any time on focusing on a country so far from its interests as to be satirically irrelevant.Binoy KAMPMARK (Oriental Review)
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Read Wallace the Brave—a comic strip by creator Will Henry—for today, August 30, 2025, and check out other great comics, too!www.gocomics.com
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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter.Chuffed
An unusual weather pattern to bring extreme British Columbia/PacNW heatwave, with lesser CA heat (and the potential for a few surprises) - Weather West
As "meteorological summer" draws to a close, a few reflections regarding CA and the broader West Meteorological summer ends tomorrow (at the end of August), so I thought it would be worth taking a look back the last three months.Daniel Swain (Weather West)
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Two Firefighters Held At Washington ICE Detention Center Amid Wildfire, U.S. Representative Says
The wildfire broke out on July 6 and was 13% contained on Saturday.REUTERS (HuffPost)
Putin reist nach China - und hofft auf stärkere Zusammenarbeit
Russlands Präsident Putin ist wegen des Überfalls auf die Ukraine im Westen isoliert. Doch mit China hat der Kremlchef einen starken Verbündeten gefunden. Bei einem Besuch in der Volksrepublik sollen die Beziehungen noch einmal vertieft werden. Von S. Markert.
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Saranno 28 le formazioni al via con ben 170 atlete in rappresentanza di 40 paesi
'Now is the time': Hurricane category 6 could be introduced under new storm severity scale www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
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'Now is the time': Hurricane category 6 could be introduced under new storm severity scale
The current hurricane classification does not consider storm surge and rainfall risks, which cause almost 80% of hurricane-related deaths. A new scale could help people better prepare for storms.Sascha Pare (Live Science)
Snoop Dogg Addresses His Comments on Same-Sex Couple in 'Lightyear': 'My Bad'
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Snoop Dogg Says 'My Bad' Over His Comments on 'Lightyear' Gay Couple
Snoop Dogg has addressed the comments he made over a same-sex couple in 'Lightyear,' writing, 'Teach me how to learn. I’m not perfect.'Althea Legaspi (Rolling Stone)
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Any micro-optimization junkies out there? We need an integer implementation of PIXMAN_OP_SATURATE, please 😃
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Implement integer version of PIXMAN_OP_SATURATE (#127) · Issues · Pixman / pixman · GitLab
If you compare _pixman_setup_combiner_functions_32 and _pixman_setup_combiner_functions_float, you'll see that there is no integer version of PIXMAN_OP_SATURATE and if falls back to floats. We found this...GitLab
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Google’s still not giving us the full picture on AI energy use
Some individual queries use a small amount of electricity, but AI’s energy demand is still a big deal.Casey Crownhart (MIT Technology Review)
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Trump: disponibile a jet Usa per garantire sicurezza Ucraina - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
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Trump: disponibile a jet Usa per garantire sicurezza Ucraina - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
In una intervista al Daily Caller, Donald Trump ha detto di essere disponibile a utilizzare aerei statunitensi come garanzia di sicurezza per porre fine alla guerra tra Russia e Ucraina. "Forse - ha spiegato il presidente americano - faremo qualcosa.Agenzia ANSA
Trump: disponibile a jet Usa per garantire sicurezza Ucraina - Nord America - Ansa.it
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Trump: disponibile a jet Usa per garantire sicurezza Ucraina - Nord America - Ansa.it
In una intervista al Daily Caller, Donald Trump ha detto di essere disponibile a utilizzare aerei statunitensi come garanzia di sicurezza per porre fine alla guerra tra Russia e Ucraina. "Forse - ha spiegato il presidente americano - faremo qualcosa.Agenzia ANSA
Trump: disponibile a jet Usa per garantire sicurezza Ucraina - Europa - Ansa.it
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Trump: disponibile a jet Usa per garantire sicurezza Ucraina - Europa - Ansa.it
In una intervista al Daily Caller, Donald Trump ha detto di essere disponibile a utilizzare aerei statunitensi come garanzia di sicurezza per porre fine alla guerra tra Russia e Ucraina. "Forse - ha spiegato il presidente americano - faremo qualcosa.Agenzia ANSA
Me: <sits on a bench in front of my wife>
Son: Are you gonna have mom braid your nonexistent hair
Me: what
Daughter: ahahahaha because you're bald
I paid for their dinner and ice cream.
Max on Instagram: "He’s actually right though. People ask me what my kids think of my account and they just think it’s lame to be honest. Lol"
50K likes, 1,173 comments - airplanefactswithmax on August 28, 2025: "He’s actually right though. People ask me what my kids think of my account and they just think it’s lame to be honest. Lol".Instagram
Jonathan Cook: The Media's Israeli Atrocity Treadmill
News outlets are so busy chasing Israel’s latest crime in Gaza — currently its horrific attack on Nasser Hospital — they never pause to piece together the bigger story of genocide. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.Consortium News
I think no matter what your politics, the phrase "big hugs to feds" has some component you can enjoy. The phrase just has a certain ring to it. Like, if "feds" are stormtroopers in your mind, then this has the same energy as the famous "Flower Power" photo from 1967. And if "feds" means all people working within the federal bureaucracy, then this phrase means extending a hug to a group under attack.
The infosec community clearly has members in both camps.
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Lula lamenta morte de Verissimo: “Soube usar a ironia para denunciar a ditadura e defender a democracia”
O presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) lamentou, em nota divulgada neste sábado, 30 de agosto, a morte do escritor e jornalista Luis Fernando Verissimo, aos 88 anos.Hora do Povo
"Mayors and councillors — elected to represent their communities — are being offered free flights, accommodation, and meals to attend a Gold Coast “antisemitism summit” this September backed by far-right pro-Israel political groups."
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Media Release: Jewish Council condemn mayors’ and councillors’ junket to far-right “antisemitism summit”
August 23, 2025 Mayors and councillors — elected to represent their communities — are being offered free flights, accommodation, and […]Jewish Council of Australia (Jewish Council Australia)
"summit organisers are seeking to introduce at local government level in Australia the IHRA definition of antisemitism"
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Deputy PM Richard Marles to address Israel lobby summit on Gold Coast - Michael West
Deputy PM and Minister for Defence is on the speakers' list to address the controversial Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) Summit today.Wendy Bacon (Michael West)
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Waverley Council unveils antisemitism strategy at Mayors summit - Inside Local Government
Waverley Council Mayor, Will Nemesh, has unveiled the council’s Model Antisemitism Strategy to delegates at the Mayors Summit Against Antisemitism on the Gold Coast this week.Kelly Nealon (Inside Local Government)
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Watermelons deemed an antisemitic symbol at pro-Israel mayoral summit
A leaflet shared at Gold Coast summit includes a bizarre list of 'antisemitic' itemsAlex McKinnon (Deepcut News)
Soft toy sewing patterns by Willowynn
Simple PDF sewing patterns for vintage-style stuffed animal dolls, soft toys and their clothing, designed in Australia by Margeaux Davis of Willowynn.Willowynn
Step-by-step approach needed for integrating citizens from de-occupied territories – Budanov
For the successful future reintegration of Ukrainian citizens from de-occupied territories, a systematic, step-by-step approach must be developed, according to Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate…Ukrinform
Your viewfinder is higher than your aperture so when you set your Rolleicord on the stones your going to have to crop out its rocky bottom. Dummy. Get a tripod.
Love, Joe.
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Meanwhile, back in reality, global ocean heat content just updated through June 2025 and set a new record high. Time to wake up!
Data (anomalies) & methods from ncei.noaa.gov/access/global-oc…
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I used to keep a reef aquarium 60 gallons… they require a certain amount of discipline and attention to water chemistry and temperature.
What’s going on in the oceans freaks me out
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Tarcísio transforma escolas de SP e alunos em cobaias de vigilância com Inteligência Artificial
APEOESP entrou com uma ação judicial contra o projeto de Tarcísio e Feder, denunciando a violação da privacidade de estudantes e professores A APEOESP (Sindicato dos Professores do Ensino Oficial do Estado de São Paulo) entrou com uma representação n…Hora do Povo
Russian authorities detain Jehovah’s Witness member in occupied Crimea
In temporarily occupied Crimea, Russian authorities have reported the detention of a 52-year-old resident of Zaprudne village on the Southern Coast, allegedly for involvement with the religious organization Jehovah’s Witnesses. — Ukrinform.Ukrinform
America is in the midst of a “sex recession” which is another lens on the loneliest epidemic. Since 1990, the number of adults saying they have sex weekly dropped from 55% to 37%.
Two big inflection points are around 2010 when smartphones got popular and another steep drop in 2020 during the pandemic.
Between 2010 and 2019, the average time young adults spent with friends in a given week fell by nearly 50%, from 12.8 hours to just 6.5 hours.
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⛔️🇺🇸Russia’s drone attack puts negotiations in jeopardy (Fox News VIDEO) #Ukraine #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Poland #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #Finland #Brussels #Denmark #UN #Romania #Moldova #Germany #ICC #WarCrimesTribunal #ICJ #UN #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar #11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
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The USDA is giving the public just three weeks to weigh in on a key step of its attempt to scrap the #RoadlessRule, which protects almost 59 million acres of forest land from road construction and timber harvesting.
Comment period open ONLY until Sept. 19.
The Hub's #YouthClimateBursary provides financial support to youth climate activists in Calgary who are either attending a post-secondary school here or have graduated from a #YYC high school & are attending post-secondary education elsewhere.
There will be four $500 bursaries, and one $1000 bursary that will be awarded
Application deadline is Monday, September 15th, 11:59PM
For more information and to apply, hit up this link: calgaryclimatehub.ca/youth_cli… #FridaysForFuture #ClimateChange
yeah, I'm not even talking py2->py3. I'm talking like python 3.12 to 3.13
ansible 4.x's vendored copy of six.moves no longer works with python 3.13
why?
they probably changed how imports work or sth
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Orange Poppies and Yellow Buttercups.
Wildflowers in an Irish countryside meadow . A typical Irish May scene.
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The Rise of Hybrid PHP: Blending PHP with Go and Rust
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Yeknava - The Rise of Hybrid PHP: Blending PHP with Go and Rust
We used to develop our application as a single DDD monolith (let’s call it the mother) with several smaller microservices around it (the children) to gain some specific advantages.yekdeveloper.com
Foto hard, veleni e massoneria, capogruppo di FdI ricattato a Prato
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Foto hard, veleni e massoneria, capogruppo di FdI ricattato a Prato
La vittima, Tommaso Cocci, era nella stessa loggia dell’imprenditore accusato di aver corrotto la sindaca dimissionaria della cittàLuca Serranò (la Repubblica)
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The conversation begins with the user asking, "What is 'furries'?" The father responds with "why do you ask," to which the user replies, "I'm always in pursuit of knowledge." The message "Delivered" is visible next to the father's response, indicating that the message has been sent successfully. The overall layout is simple, with the messages clearly separated by the user and the father, and the conversation appears to be taking place on a messaging app.
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$245M wasted on “Alligator Alcatraz”: abuse, sewage leaks, and destroyed wetlands. Now a judge has ordered Florida’s swamp jail shut. Taxpayers left holding the bill. Utter disgrace.
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‘Alligator Alcatraz’ to be vacated in compliance with court order to shut it
Reported email by state official confirms state will shutter prison though governor Ron DeSantis has appealedRichard Luscombe (The Guardian)
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Will the “heroic” Qassam epic from Gaza’s Zaytoun neighbourhood ruin Netanyahu’s political career?
Do American military outposts in Iraq leave before a clash with Iran? Abdel Bari Atwan The Al-Qassam Brigades, which are linked with the Islamic Resistance Movement "Hamas", taught the Israeli army...رأي اليوم
The racists in this country right now fuelled by fake patriotism, the media and politicians.
I'd much rather see an immigrant working hard, than the English working hard to destroy England.
#TheEnglishFlagIsARascistDogWhistle
#RacistsFuckOff
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You might need to put up some signs in Chicago that say "All Federal ICE and Law Enforcement agents must be clearly identifiable and may not cover their faces."
The reason for the sign is if you want to enforce that, which you will need to do a few times or it has no meaning you need a sign to point to.
It should be a metal sign.
And you need a clear plan for what happens when you do.
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going to be interesting dealing with IDs... along with the requirement for bodycams on at all times.
i find the mayor's and governor's rhetoric encouraging. the CPD reform efforts? much less so.
but we all have to do something, so i'll take this.
Groups of people following ICE agents & mockingly playing the Darth Vader theme music on a boombox at high volume; advance warning systems to protect communities take many forms
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MAGA seem unaware that Darth Vader was a puppet of a megalomaniac emperor who started a war to grab power
Darth Vader & the emperor he served are the baddies
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‘Clouded in mystery’: how Ice became a rogue agency that does Trump’s bidding
Shrouded in secrecy, the US agency has become a kind of domestic stormtrooper for Maga’s agendaBen Makuch (The Guardian)
Trump's DHS cut funding to mass shooting prevention programs in Minnesota shortly before killings
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A imagem mostra seis homens sentados em uma fileira de bancos, com um ambiente que parece ser interno, possivelmente um hospital ou clínica. O homem no centro está vestido com um robe preto e calças vermelhas, enquanto os outros cinco homens estão usando roupas brancas, que parecem ser uniformes médicos. Todos estão sentados de forma casual, com expressões amigáveis e conversando entre si. O texto na imagem, em português, diz: "Casa Branca acabou de soltar essa foto do Trump, ele tá ótimo gente, circulando."
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It's 2025 and the concept of "Christians should want to employ ALL means possible at our disposal - governmental, public, private, non-profit, religious organization - to make sure that the sick are healed, the unhoused have shelter, the hungry have food, every child have access to a world-class education and equal opportunity to succeed" is heresy to Evangelicals.
I'mma say it now: If heaven exists, it's gonna be full of really surprised humanists and atheists.
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Calvinism is responsible for most of the MAGA-adjacent doctrine that's become the favored flavor amongst the right. Calvinists believe they were chosen by God from before the creation of the world, while the rest of us were chosen by God to be condemned to an eternity of perpetual horrific suffering before we were even conceived. They hate who they believe God hates - thus by being rude or violent to those they believe God hates, in their minds, they're honoring God.
What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXV
A selection of read volumes from my shelves
What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading or planning to read next month? Here’s the July installment of this column.
One of my favorite forms of SF scholarship is careful identification of a intellectual genealogy–tracing what an author read and engaged in dialogue with. Authors are readers. They also can’t escape references and textual traces of what they’ve consumed (or, of course, engagement with the world in which they lived).
I’ve read two interesting examples recently. The first, Carol McGuirk’s “J. G. Ballard and American Science Fiction” in Science Fiction Studies, vol. 49 (2022), is the perfect example of this type of scholarship. She traces Ballard’s engagement with SF, his earliest stories, and the various parallels an interactions between his work and American SF that he read (Galaxy Magazine, Theodore Sturgeon, Fritz Leiber, Robert Heinlein, Frederik Pohl, C. M. Kornbluth, Ray Bradbury, Judith Merril, Federic Brown, Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore, etc.). She argues that Ballard engaged in “retelling with a twist” (476). She writes that “early Ballard stories rework prior sf in moods ranging from measured homage to barbed repose to parodic photo-bomb” (483).
The second example is David Seed’s John Wyndham (2025). I did not realize that Wyndham’s works so systematically engaged with the SF ideas of H. G. Wells. Not only did Wyndham’s criticism frequently cover Wells’ SF, but his stories were littered with Wells reference, reformulations, etc. Seed indicates references to a vast range of both school reading and also personal favorite authors.
Both works reveal an author as a reader. Fascinating stuff!
Before we get to the photograph above and the curated birthdays, let me know what pre-1985 SF you’re currently reading or planning to read!
The Photograph (with links to reviews and brief thoughts)
- Ursula K. Le Guin’s City of Illusions (1967). I cannot say I remember much about this one! I read it in my late teens. I premise, aliens who do not execute but purge the mind of memories, sounds intriguing.
- Robert Silverberg’s A Time of Changes (1971). While most of the Silverberg I’ve read I’ve also reviewed on the site, I listened to this one as an audiobook. Not my absolute favorite of his but characteristically smooth and though-provoking despite its flaws.
- David R. Bunch’s Moderan (1971). One of the fantastically oddball authors in SF landscape. This collection is not to be missed! Unfortunately, never managed to write a review.
- Mordecai Roshwald’s Level 7 (1959). I thoroughly enjoyed this dissection of the psychological state of the cold war warrior, in this instance an inhabitant of a underground military facility. A gem of the 50s!
What am I writing about?
Despite the stress that comes with teaching at the beginning of the semester, I wrote a lot in August. I reviewed Jack Dann’s fantastic collection of New Wave nightmares Timetipping (1980); resurrected my SF in translation series with Rachel S. Cordasco with our reviews of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s “Wanderers and Travellers” (1963, trans. 1966); and continued my series on pessimistic takes on space travel with John Wyndham’s “The Man From Beyond” (1934).
What am I reading?
I recently finished Ryan C. McIlhenny’s wonderful intellectual biography American Socialist: Laurence Gronlund and the Power Behind Revolution (2025). Gronlund’s The Cooperative Commonwealth (1884) is responsible for popularizing Karl Marx’s ideas in the United States, with his own distinctly Christian twist. Edward Bellamy’s utopian SF novel Looking Backward: 2000–1887 (1888) fictionalized many of Gronlund’s ideas.
As for history of science fiction, I finished David Seed’s John Wyndham (2025). I wanted to feature it in my interview series but I haven’t heard back from the author. Alas!
A Curated List of SF Birthdays from the Last Two Weeks [names link to The Internet Speculative Fiction Database for bibliographical info]
August 16th: The influential editor and occasional author Hugo Gernsback (1884-1967). Shockingly considering my focus on post-WWII fiction, I’ve featured a few stories and authors from his magazines recently. See my review of John Wyndham’s “The Man From Beyond” (variant title: “The Man from Earth”) (1934) and my interview with Jaroslav Olša, Jr. about his book on Gernsback’s first “find”:Miloslav (Miles) J. Breuer.
August 17th: Rachel Pollack (1945-2023). I’ve only reviewed Alqua Dreams (1987). I’ve been meaning to feature her first three published SF short fictions in my ongoing series.
August 18th: Brian W. Aldiss (1925-2017). Another Joachim Boaz favorite. Check out my review of Hothouse (variant title: The Long Afternoon of Earth) (1962) if you haven’t already.
August 19th: Gene Roddenberry (1921-1991). Creator of Star Trek.
Karel Thole’s cover for the 1971 edition of D. G. Compton’s Farewell, Earth’s Bliss (1966)
August 19th: D. G. Compton (1930-2023) crafted a fascinating range of SF novels — I recommend The Unsleeping Eye(variant title: The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe) (1973), Synthajoy (1968), and Farewell, Earth’s Bliss (1966) in particular. In 2021 he rightly won the Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award.
August 19th: Artist H. W. Wesso (1894-1948) was one of the iconic Astounding Stories artists.
H. R. Van Dongen’s canvas for the 1979 edition of Jack Vance’s City of the Chasch (1968)
August 20th: Artist H. R. Van Dongen (1920-2010).
August 20th: Arthur Porges (1915-2006). I know little about his work. Seems to be prolific in the short form.
August 20th: Greg Bear (1951-2022). In my more expansive SF-reading days, I consumed Bear’s Darwin’s Radio (1999), Blood Music (1985), and Eon (1985).
August 20th: H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937). If his work tickles your fancy, definitely check out Bobby D.’s wonderful website Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein. I’ve only read a few stories here and there.
August 21st: Anthony Boucher (1911-1968).
August 21st: Miriam Allen deFord (1888-1975). Check out my review of her collection Xenogenesis (1969).
Ron Walotsky’s cover for the 1989 edition of Brian Aldiss’ Non-Stop (variant title: Starship) (1958)
August 21st: Artist Ron Walotsky (1943-2002)
August 21st: Lucius Shepard (1943-2014). I gapping whole in my SF knowledge… Sometimes I feel a bit intimidated by an author. And I think Shepard is that guy at the moment.
August 22nd: Ray Bradbury (1920-2012). Very much an author of my childhood — I remember road trips listening to audiobooks of The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Illustrated Man (1951). I’ve covered a handful of his stories on the site: “Almost the End of the World” (1957), “The Highway” (1950), “The Pedestrian” (1951). and “The Strawberry Window” (1955).
Ron Turner’s cover for John Russell Fearn’s Deadline to Pluto (1951)
August 22nd: Ron Turner (1922-1998). Sometimes I think his garish pulp covers are the only view of 50s SF some people have…
August 24th: James Tiptree, Jr. (1915-1987). A favorite of mine. I’ve covered the following: “A Momentary Taste of Being” (1975), “A Source of Innocent Merriment” (1980), “The Girl Who Was Plugged In” (1973), “Houston, Houston, Do You Read?” (1976), and “Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death” (1973).
August 24th: Editor Bea Mahaffey (1928-1987).
August 24th: Orson Scott Card (1951-). Another author of my youth… I attended high school in a community with a substantial Mormon population. I was lent copies of Card novels by the dozen. Didn’t realize the connection at the time! In a group of “classic” authors that I have little desire to return to.
August 25th: Jeffrey A. Carver (1949-). I haven’t read any of his work. Let me know if there’s anything of his worth acquiring. Maybe Panglor (1980)?
August 26th: Gerald Kersh (1911-1968). I’ve only read “Whatever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo?” (1953).
August 26th: Otto Binder (1911-1974). Published SF with his brother Earl (1904-1966) under the name “Eando” Binder. After 1934, Otto continued using the pen name without his brother.
August 26th: C. S. Forester (1899-1966), best known for his Horatio Hornblower sequence, also wrote a few science fiction stories!
August 27th: T. L. Sherred (1915-1985)
August 27th: Artist Frank Kelly Freas (1922-2005). I can’t say I’m the biggest Freas fan. Never cared for the fuzzy airbrush feel (with a few exceptions).
August 27th: Edward Bryant (1945-2017).
August 28th: Jack Vance (1916-2013).
Burckhard Labowski and Regine Schulz’s cover for the 1983 German edition of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s Roadside Picnic (1972)
August 28th: Arkady Strugatsky (1925-1991).
August 28th: Vonda N. McIntyre (1948-2019). A favorite of mine — check out my review of her Hugo-winning Dreamsnake (1968) if you’re new to her work.
August 28th: Barbara Hambly (1951-).
August 29th: Don Wilcox (1905-2000). Wrote an important early generation ship story: “The Voyage That Lasted 600 Years” (1940).
August 29th: Thomas N. Scortia (1926-1986)
August 20th: Judith Moffett (1942-). Anyone read her fiction?
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What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXIV
A selection of read volumes from my shelves What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading or planning to read next month? Here’s the June installment of this column. I adore teaching…Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
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Orange Poppies and Yellow Buttercups.
Wildflowers in an Irish countryside meadow . A typical Irish May scene.
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Events for the 31st of August from Wikipedia:
• 1798: Irish Rebellion: Irish rebels, with French assistance, establish the short-lived Republic of Connacht. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Re…
• Birth (1992) of Holly Earl, British actress en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Ea…
• Death (1867) of Charles Baudelaire, French poet and critic (b. 1821) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_…
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