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I think that science fiction, even the corniest of it, even the most outlandish of it, no matter how badly it’s written, has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change.

Robert Heinlein (via oldschoolsciencefiction)

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*sees an airplane at night* That’s a UFO.

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Sci-fi o’ the day: The Tommyknockers by Stephen King

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12:59pm

Dave Kyle Says You Can’t Reblog Here!

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Good definition of science fiction: “No, it doesn’t make sense, but it’s internally consistent in the lack of sense it’s making.”

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Science Fiction Histories, Non-fiction, or Biographies: Wish List

Other Spaces, Other Times: A Life Spent in the Future by Robert Silverberg

Worldcon Guest of Honors Speeches edited by Mike Resnick & Joe Siclari

Hell’s Cartographers: Some Personal Histories of Science Fiction Writers edited by Brian W. Aldiss & Harry Harrison

Science Fiction By Gaslight: A History and Anthology of Science Fiction in the Popular Magazines, 1891-1911 by Sam Moskowitz

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John W. Campbell, Jr. and Robert Silverberg

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SF Profile: Isaac Asimov

© “Isaac Asimov: Genius in the Candy Store” by Sam Moskowitz, Amazing Stories, April: 1962, Ziff-Davis Publishing Co. New York: N.Y.

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SF Profile: John W. Campbell, Jr.

© “John W. Campbell: the Writing Years” by Sam Moskowitz, Amazing Stories, August: 1963, Ziff-Davis Publishing Co. New York: N.Y.

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10:57am

“Farewell to the Master” by Harry Bates (Sen. editor, Astounding Stories of Super-science, Clayton-era: 1930-1933)

http://www.digital-eel.com/blog/library/Farewell_to_the_Master.pdf