Neal Munro

Books & Stuff & the occasional pithy Comment.

[Neal Munro @GutenbergsSon]

The Entropy Effect https://t.co/f7XM4ELicB

[Humanoid History @HumanoidHistory]

Star Wars, no. 46, Marvel, 1981. Cover by Ed Hannigan and Tom Palmer.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

The moment you realize those old stunning, impossible looking oil paintings of sailing ships in storms were absolutely accurate.

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

Reunion (Star Trek: The Next Generation) by Michael Jan Friedman. Simon & Schuster, 1991.

[Alan Fryer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @alanfryermedia]

From the Queen of Misinformation herself.

[Retro Recall (☥𝐃𝐁) @RetroMoviesDB]

King Solomon's Mines (1985)

Did we all forget about this?

[The Critical Drinker @TheCriticalDri2]

They're literally only doing this because thousands of accounts on X shared the footage and forced them to act. Imagine how many other incidents like this are quietly covered up.

[SciFi Art @retroscifiart]

Tim White ‘Trumps of Doom’ by Roger Zelazny (Avon, 1985)

[Retro Recall (☥𝐃𝐁) @RetroMoviesDB]

Never forget

[Joseph Mallozzi 🏴‍☠️ @BaronDestructo]

Today, I'm recommending four essential works by James P. Hogan, a British engineer and hard-SF writer whose fiction championed technological optimism and human ingenuity.

Inherit the Stars (1977): Book one of the Giants series begins with a perplexing mystery: a 50,000 year old human corpse in a red spacesuit is discovered on the Moon. A brilliant scientific detective story, this was Hogan's debut novel, reportedly written to win a five-pound office bet that he couldn't write and publish a science-fiction novel, after he'd complained that the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey made no sense.

Voyage from Yesteryear (1982): On the planet Chiron, a generation grown from digitally encoded genetic data and raised by robotic tutors has built an advanced, post-scarcity anarchist utopia. When an authoritarian Earth government arrives to reclaim the colony, it sparks a massive clash of cultures. Thematically ambitious, it remains a touchstone of libertarian SF.

The Two Faces of Tomorrow (1979): To test the survival instincts and safety limits of the AI running a vast orbital station, scientists isolate it and stage a series of attacks. The machine adapts all too well, turning the station into an engineering battleground. It brilliantly anticipates the modern AI control problem while remaining grounded in hard science.

Code of the Lifemaker (1983): Human explorers encounter a civilization of intelligent, self-replicating robots, the Taloids, that independently evolved on Titan after a radiation-damaged alien factory ship, its software corrupted, began churning out imperfect copies roughly a million years earlier. This witty, highly satirical novel explores machine evolution, culture, and human greed.

Check out the quoted thread for the recommended works of Theodore Sturgeon, Alfred Bester, Bob Shaw, Clifford D. Simak, Algis Budrys, A.E. van Vogt, C.L. Moore, Cordwainer Smith, C.M. Kornbluth, D.G. Compton, Thomas M. Disch, Alice Bradley Sheldon (James Tiptree, Jr.), John Brunner, Judith Merril, Hal Clement, James Blish, Jack Williamson, Katherine MacLean, Fred Saberhagen, Jack Vance, Leigh Brackett, Edgar Pangborn, R.A. Lafferty, William Tenn, Kate Wilhelm, Avram Davidson, James H. Schmitz, Eric Frank Russell, Brian W. Aldiss, Carol Emshwiller, Wilson Tucker, Chad Oliver, Zenna Henderson, Pauline Ashwell, Frederik Pohl, Henry Kuttner, and Barrington J. Bayley.

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines (1969). There were only two voice actors in this one: Paul Winchell and Don Messick.

The working title for the show was Stop That Pigeon, hence the title song.

[Victims of Communism @VoCommunism]

Vladimir Lenin died in 1924. He left behind a legacy of communist oppression, torture, and death.

Remember the victims.

[70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifi]

This is pixel art, btw. Done in 1990 with Macintosh PixelPaint, using a mouse.

[SciFi Art @retroscifiart]

From my collection - books published by Dragons’ Dream and its imprint Paper Tiger. Cofounded in 1976 by Roger Dean with Martyn Dean and Hubert Schaafsma, it published hundreds of titles until 2009 (?) 1/2

[GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT @GFRobot]

Christopher Nolan's Odyssey would not exist if this had become the hit it was meant to be. Instead, we'd have gotten an Odyssey set in this universe, and the world would be a better place for it. https://t.co/n8oArra3We

[Aelfred The Great @aelfred_D]

“You take the land, we take the air.”

“Like the old days. Yes.”

“Yes. The age of man is over...the time of the animals has come.”

[Niagara Region @NiagaraRegion]

#Niagara Photo of the Week: Led by a B-25 Mitchell, the Snowbirds made a final fly over Niagara Falls in June, paying tribute to the proud history of the 431 Bomber Squadron.

Thanks for sharing Brad Mitchell, Niagara Falls.

[The Critical Drinker @TheCriticalDri2]

The year is 2029, and you own nothing. Are you happy?

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[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

The Valley of the Worm and Others, by Robert E. Howard (Skull Face Omnibus vol 2). Panther Books, 1976. Cover by Chris Achilleos.

[Fusilli Spock @awstar11]

Say it to his face Wil, "coward"