 June 22, 2013 - 3:44am | http://deltasdnd.blogspot.com/2013/06/scifi-saturday-asimov-on-hyperspace-pt-1.html interesting concept any other "DNA" I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 June 22, 2013 - 6:07am | As I mentioned in the Star Law article, Asimov created the Space Ranger and Frontier concept with the juvenile fiction series, Lucky Starr. View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
June 30, 2013 - 12:36am | Part 2: http://deltasdnd.blogspot.com/2013/06/scifi-saturday-asimov-on-hyperspace-pt-2.html Includes Star Wars quotes and references. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
June 30, 2013 - 1:57am | Hmm. Is the ship in Foundation and Empire guided by a rollerball years before rollerballs were invented? Or is that some sort of spherical readout? View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
 July 2, 2013 - 1:22am | Thats Interesting. I Avoided reading Asimov as a kid. Mostly because that was stuff my Father had read. So In my juvenile mind at the time, thats what old people read. I read a lot of Action Adventure/ Space Opera stuff. Cuz thats what a kid wants. I did not care that spaceships don't fly like airplanes dogfighting in WWII. Now I do, I want my Kids to realize that even though that stuff is fun, Things dont work that way. The bombing starts in five minutes. |
July 2, 2013 - 5:15am | I read to escape, early on I discovered Burroughs and Princess of Mars - but never actually finished the series once I began to realise that the characters were flat and that the plots were badly recycled from book to book. I got hooked on Star Trek novels but eventually tired on them. Star Wars novels (Han solo series) Asimov's Foundation series because one of the GIs working for my dad said it was classic Sci-fi, Some Norton (the first contact novel between the vrusk like species and humanity) some CJ Cherryh but only the first contact novel of the Pride of Chanurr. Eventually discovered Anne McCaffrey and spent a lot of time locating her books. One thing that was cool was one of the GIs working for my Dad gave me a pile of Asimov magazines and I read those a couple of times- short stories sure but they were interesting sci fi. I still remember "Light On the Sound" (but perhaps I remember that one because it involved a naked female protagonist that needed to be rescued from her society and that had strong appeal to a teenage male) though the story had a strong theme about exploitation. Later on in adult hood I would read any Asimov that came across my path, except for the 2 year period where I read nothing but Westerns (thank you very much Louis Lamour) I even picked up Asimov's commentary on the Bible, it was not indepth like one of the great theologians but some what I read was pretty good though I always approached it with healthy skepticism. For me Asimov has always been there- a writer that I can repeatedly turn to and read where as I eventual lost my taste for Burroughs, Anne McCaffry, Anne Rice, Star Trek novels under any name, Asimov is like a staple dish of meat and potatoes that you can always eat. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
July 19, 2013 - 11:28am | Here's part 3 which gets at the 1% of light speed for void jump http://deltasdnd.blogspot.com/2013/07/scifi-saturday-asimov-on-hyperspace-pt-3.html I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
