Krell Machines

Aida Rivera-Ford

Aida Rivera-Ford is the founder of The Ford Academy of the Arts in Mindanao, Philippines.  Painter (and International Authors board member) Bienvenido Bones Banez Jr. appears at 7:49.

Breaking News: Static Image Causes Pupils to Respond, Maybe

 

 

 

 

 

 

Explanation:  The image prompts the brain to think the viewer is entering a dark recess or cave, maybe. This thesis is unconfirmed.

Highbrow Experts Describe the Convair 990

 

1:40 Kelly Owen, American Airlines Acceptance Pilot at Convair

2:47 Frank Colt, Assistant Vice-President of Engineering, Research and Development, Convair

6:17 Al Perkins, American Airlines Director for Aircraft Development at Convair, San Diego

Nervi belli pecunia infinita

   Endless money forms the sinews of war.

        - Cicero

Highbrow Advice from Carl Sagan

 

“If we are not able to ask skeptical questions to interrogate those who tell us something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we’re up for grabs for the next charlatan political or religious leader who comes ambling along.”

                                                 - Carl Sagan

Emanations 10 Call for Submissions

International Authors and the editors of Emanations are happy to announce a Call for Submissions

Emanations 10 (Zehn, Zen)

 

Please Click HERE

Do you see the cat?

Michael Butterworth Nominated

Michael Butterworth has been nominated for 'Best SF Poet' for the Laureate Awards for his Complete Poems 1965-2020 in the current edition of NF3 (National Fantasy Fan Federation).

Please click the cover image to view the Amazon description:

"The growing power of technology over society and the individual"

Professor Hodges has announced the publication of the Invisible Tower Trilogy.  Please click HERE to the view his brief remarks.  HERE to view the Amazon page for the trilogy.

Professor Hodges' new book Extra Pound: The Limericks will be out soon.  Watch this space.

Horace Jeffery Hodges

Go Man Van Gogh

"Beyond the Reset" by Oleg Kuznetsov

Linguistic Facts vs. Concrete Verifiable Facts

Here the tenor of musical patterns is a fact, but where is this fact concrete? How is it verifiable?

Rudolf Bauer – Great Fugue, 1929

Boron Fuel

Please click HERE for a brief overview.

Please click HERE for an article from Nature.

Or skip the subject entirely and click HERE to view a description of the Invisible Tower Trilogy.

Celestial Vector Bongo Stream

Seeing Right Through It

Space Age Nostalgia in Search of a Clever Remark

Dovima posing with an Atlas-Able rocket at Cape Canaveral, 1959. Photo by Richard Avedon

 

The Philosophy Professors' New Clothes

The Art of Literary Description: Samuel Sanders reviews Tally-Ho, Cornelius!

From 2013,  Samuel Sanders' Amazon review of Tally-Ho, Cornelius!

The Multiverse Finds Its Hero

Kids, this is not your average garden variety Jerry Cornelius story. In fact, I would go as far as to postulate that Carter Kaplan has penned the definitive Jerry Cornelius Origin Story.

The entire story revolves around the vainglorious Reverend Dr. Jeremiah Cornelius and his, at first glance, perfect life. All the supporting actors are here: Catherine, Francis, Oona. A revolutionary minister known for conciliating science and religion, the postmodern divine enjoys a celebrity status. He meets a strange and eloquent little boy claiming to be from Brazil.

Little does the postmodern divine know that Capricorn is in fact an immortal Lost Corsair in a last ditch attempt to save his corsairs from the singularity at the beginning of Time! The Lost Corsairs wait for their captain in their unfamiliar identities and struggle to cope in the laws of physics defying universe.

The majority of the book is like a gentle stream. You follow the postmodern divine on his daily doings. The longest chapter is a step by step tour guide from St John's to the Museum of Natural History, then another detailed guide of the reverend and the boy's wanderings inside the museum. Satirical, philosophical, nonsensical, this novel springs forth some heady subjects, including a scientific definition of Moorcock's Second Ether and what it really is.

Meanwhile,
It all comes to head in a most interesting way. You end up not liking the pompous postmodern divine very much while you can't help but be impressed by him, but at the end of it all, you start feeling very sorry for him because the perfection he finds in himself and hopes to find reflected in others fails him. And you go away from it unsure about how you feel about it all, but want to brush up with another roundabout.

Kaplan pens his first novel with an unique and addictive style which keeps one enthralled despite the majority of it being composed of primarily mundane activities. If you are looking for something not run of the mill, or are just a big Jerry Cornelius fan like myself, this book is for you.

Read on!

Here is the Amazon description:

Jerry Cornelius comes back to life as a most improbable Anglican theologian in this lively tale of love, God's will and the New World Order. Set against the pulsing background of New York City rebuilding at the dawn of our young and uncertain century, this happy and charming novel bubbles over with the myths and ambitions that feed the hallucinating classes as they chase their aspirations. Jerry Cornelius is our affliction and our respite. Michael Moorcock writes, "Rev. Dr. Jerry Cornelius remains an enigmatic and at the same time wholly transparent figure amongst modern media brands, at once instantly recognizable and invisible."

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Space Weather

Monitoring space weather can be as diverting (recreational, educational) as keeping up with atmospheric weather.  Here are two useful sites:

Space Weather Prediction Center (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration)

SpaceWeather.Com  (And scroll to the bottom of this page for additional links to space weather data and image sources.)