Posts by SFRuminations@wandering.shop
(DIR) Post #AnAcMCwAPvWes6X6cS by SFRuminations@wandering.shop
2024-10-14T00:01:10Z
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Philip K. Dick’s “Stand-By” (1963) satirizes unions and the media in a post-scarcity world but tentatively suggests conflict between both might lead to the overthrow of a ruling computer and the eventual reemergence of democracy. #scifi #sciencefiction #magazines #stories
(DIR) Post #AnAcMDygY38O6CidBQ by SFRuminations@wandering.shop
2024-10-14T00:02:20Z
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Milton Lesser's "Do It Yourself" (1957), one of only a handful unabashedly positive accounts on unions in the 50s, imagines a post-apocalyptic future in which the American individualist ethos reigns supreme. While banned and publicly ridiculed, a union secretly sends out agents to facilitate the rebuilding project. #scifi #sciencefiction #magazines #stories
(DIR) Post #AnAcMIy9zQgXa1VmYi by SFRuminations@wandering.shop
2024-10-14T01:31:15Z
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And in H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire’s “Hunter Patrol” (1959), a ragtag group of disaffected, including a union man (an object of jest), attempt to recruit a soldier from earlier in time to overthrow a dictator. #scifi #sciencefiction #magazines #stories
(DIR) Post #AocPhbqZz3GNsWRpnk by SFRuminations@wandering.shop
2024-12-01T22:44:34Z
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@bojacobs @sts @histodons From what I've read of your article, it seems to be an underlying pillar to some later formulations -- like Thomas Bishop's fascinating Every Home a Fortress: Cold War Fatherhood and the Family Fallout Shelter (2020).
(DIR) Post #As7FmXx42KSG9I8fyK by SFRuminations@wandering.shop
2025-03-16T15:15:15Z
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“Lemme on the porch! I wanna bite your toes while you’re reading!” #cat #caturday #cats #catsofmastodon
(DIR) Post #AviuKPIcAZD5fCaWDQ by SFRuminations@wandering.shop
2025-07-02T12:49:50Z
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C. M. Kornbluth (1923-1958) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?285L, John Berkey, 1969; R, Richard Powers, 1958#scifi #sciencefiction #books
(DIR) Post #AwIFKnz9YmZxjVDgLQ by SFRuminations@wandering.shop
2025-07-19T13:39:09Z
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Tibor Csernus' cover art for the 1979 French edition of Robert Silverberg's The World Inside (1971)#scifi #sciencefiction #books #art #artist #France
(DIR) Post #AwIFKsNPEYM7Lsb6hc by SFRuminations@wandering.shop
2025-07-19T13:40:57Z
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My thoughts on Silverberg's The World Inside (1971): https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2011/03/06/book-review-the-world-inside-robert-silverberg-1971/Note: the review is from 2011 -- the second year of my site. #scifi #sciencefiction #books
(DIR) Post #AwQmjOJ51LuL5FYDDc by SFRuminations@wandering.shop
2025-07-23T12:59:36Z
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Artist Virgil Finlay (1914-1971) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1084L, 1966; R, 1952#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist
(DIR) Post #AxpQD39D3NUjxDRJmy by SFRuminations@wandering.shop
2025-09-03T10:55:44Z
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Mick Farren (1943-2013) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?208L, Peter Jones, 1977; R, Chris Welch, 1978#scifi #sciencefiction #music #books
(DIR) Post #AxpebIO9RE1pX0srmS by SFRuminations@wandering.shop
2025-09-03T14:37:44Z
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@mazigazi Yup. I focus on the SF angle in my birthday posts.
(DIR) Post #AxpebMblkXIYcPHnYu by SFRuminations@wandering.shop
2025-09-03T14:38:28Z
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@mazigazi I reviewed one of his books on my site: The Texts of Festival (1973) https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2019/11/30/book-review-the-texts-of-festival-mick-farren-1973/
(DIR) Post #AxpnkZdTa9HPDTYE7s by SFRuminations@wandering.shop
2025-09-03T16:24:23Z
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@mazigazi Yes, it's his first novel. I provide a bibliographic link in the original birthday post.
(DIR) Post #B05Tz0R7LFZHxqybya by SFRuminations@wandering.shop
2025-11-09T15:52:47Z
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Carl Smith's cover art detail for the science fiction anthology Spectrum 5, ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (1969)#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist
(DIR) Post #B0kOMSn9AIg9KOTYLA by SFRuminations@wandering.shop
2025-11-11T16:19:05Z
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?62L, uncredited, 1975; R, uncredited, 1970#scifi #sciencefiction #books #literature
(DIR) Post #B2yi2HwJ02dlLm3OGu by SFRuminations@wandering.shop
2026-02-04T11:28:34Z
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Artist Franco Grignani (1908-1999) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?49191L, 1969; R, 1970#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist
(DIR) Post #B39Q0EDCE71Am3NhzM by SFRuminations@wandering.shop
2026-02-09T16:49:01Z
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Artist Frank Frazetta (1928-2010) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1825L, 1966; R, 1968#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist
(DIR) Post #B39Q8h8OZq7inCAmtU by SFRuminations@wandering.shop
2026-02-09T16:41:09Z
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Artist Gary Viskupic (1944-2024) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?25612L, 1978; R, 1979#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist
(DIR) Post #B3HgLFS1y1JxEK2pAO by SFRuminations@wandering.shop
2026-02-13T14:56:22Z
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Elliott Dold, Jr.'s interior art for Amelia Reynolds Long's "Cosmic Fever" in Astounding Stories (February 1937)#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist
(DIR) Post #B3KEd59Mn3UHFguTDc by SFRuminations@wandering.shop
2026-02-14T21:16:38Z
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My little reader#scifi #sciencefiction #caturday #cats #catsofmastodon