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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Revamped blog Marooned has new URL

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I've revamped my blog in hopes of providing a more enjoyable experience for all. A different template, larger images, simplified tags an...
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Monday, September 6, 2010

Winner of The Martian Chronicles: The Complete Edition giveaway!

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Congratulations to Terri L. of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, who is the proud new owner of my slightly-used copy of the signed, limited editi...
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Doctor Who television special “The Waters of Mars” wins Hugo Award

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BBC’s acclaimed Doctor Who television special “The Waters of Mars” (2009), which attracted millions of viewers in the United Kingdom, Aust...
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Sunday, September 5, 2010

Reading Barsoom & Llana Jane Burroughs

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If you're a fan of pulp author Edgar Rice Burroughs and his fictional red planet Barsoom, here are some recent links worth checking out....
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1931 letter to Astounding Stories: "Aren't there any tall girls in your imaginations?"

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Dear Editor: Gr-r-r, now I am mad! I do wish that people who want a regular instruction book of a magazine would kindly refrain from spendin...
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Saturday, September 4, 2010

Events of Martian Rails: Green Mars!

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Martian Rails (2009), the crayon board game manufactured by Mayfair Games about railroading on the Red Planet in which players build tracks...
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Friday, September 3, 2010

“The First-Born” -- new health sciences short story by Brian W. Aldiss

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Here’s another new short story written by award-winning British science fiction author Brian W. Aldiss . It’s titled “The First-Born” and i...
Thursday, September 2, 2010

Rogue archivist and other in$ider$ at Public.Resource.Org earn ea$y ca$h

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Thanks to Canadian science fiction author and blogger Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing, I learned all about “10 Rules for Radicals” by rogue a...

Five Mars SF&F guys who committed suicide

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Guess who? 1. James Ashmore Creelman (1894-1941) Hollywood film writer whose credits include King Kong (1933) and The Journey to Mars (19...
Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Top 10 Marooned posts for August 2010

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The Top 10 Marooned posts for August 2010: 1. Gallery of b&w illustrations from Edison’s Conquest of Mars (1898, 1947) 2. “They All H...

Cover art: Podkayne of Mars

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Check out this Flickr gallery of cover art portraying Podkayne of Mars, the title character in Robert A. Heinlein’s classic 1963 juvenile n...
Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Wanted: Info on Brain W. Aldiss’ new SF story “Finches of War”

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Late last month, ThisIsOxfordshire.com reported that award-winning British science fiction author and artist Brian W. Aldiss has written a...

Dark Horse to reprint John Carter of Mars comics from 1970's Weird Worlds and Tarzan

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Dark Horse Comics is collecting and reprinting the John Carter of Mars stories that were originally published in the 1970's comic books...

Swedish art: Marsmänniska glass vase

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There’s a beautiful Graal glass vase by Swedish artist Eva Englund (1937-1998) for sale on eBay. Created in 1988, the piece is called ...
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Monday, August 30, 2010

New gender switch short story: “Amazon Arena of Mars” by Tara Loughead

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Jekkara Press, the home of The Adventures of Bulays & Ghaavn and The Gender Switch Adventures, has an interesting, free short story titl...

Retro review: Siskel & Ebert discuss 1996 Sci-Fi spoof Mars Attacks!

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Film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert review Mars Attacks! (1996), director Tim Burton's science fiction spoof based on the 1962 Top...
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