tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12447699401107443292012-02-16T05:18:47.078-08:00Rob Hoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02211809421832142963noreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1244769940110744329.post-52660554667049305502009-12-07T05:30:00.001-08:002009-12-07T05:30:45.611-08:00<object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8018859&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8018859&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/8018859">Electro-Pulp Video Magazine Vol 1, No 1</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user2754539">steve davidson</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1244769940110744329-5266055466704930550?l=scifiisfunevenifitsspeculation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rob Hoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02211809421832142963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1244769940110744329.post-33457981583660420632008-06-15T02:08:00.000-07:002008-06-15T02:11:09.199-07:00http://www.lewisshiner.com/liberation/index.htm<br /><br />Lewis Shiner is a famous science fiction writer.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1244769940110744329-3345798158366042063?l=scifiisfunevenifitsspeculation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rob Hoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02211809421832142963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1244769940110744329.post-20924152867603820592008-06-05T13:02:00.001-07:002008-06-05T13:05:24.038-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_SJP3Lr5NHA4/SEhGZkx45qI/AAAAAAAADdw/uWMWNQXp-qk/s1600-h/littlefuzzy.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_SJP3Lr5NHA4/SEhGZkx45qI/AAAAAAAADdw/uWMWNQXp-qk/s400/littlefuzzy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208490374237578914" /></a><br />I just finished listening to the Audio Realms audio edition of H Beam Piper's classic science fiction novel Little Fuzzy and fell in love with the book all over again. Little Fuzzy was the first book I ever bought for myself: it was on my first trip to Bakka, the world's oldest surviving science fiction bookstore, at the age of nine or ten. Tanya Huff -- now a bestselling writer in her own right -- was working that day and I asked her for some recommendations. She marched me back to the used section of the store and took down a copy of Little Fuzzy, promising that I'd love it.<br /><br />I did.<br /><br />Little Fuzzy is Piper's masterpiece, a tight, neat science fiction story that epitomizes the golden age of sf. It concerns a prospector on a distant world who discovers a potentially sentient aboriginal race (the "Fuzzies), and his ensuing fight -- fists, lawyers and even guns -- to get them recognized as sentient beings. Along the way, Piper explores the nature of colonial economies, the deepest questions of consciousness and intelligence, paternalism and self-determination, and the nature of the rule of law. All in a package that a nine-year-old will find riveting and delightful.<br /><br />The Audio Realms 5-CD unabridged recording just won Publishers Weekly's annual Fantasy Audiobook of the Year award (why "fantasy" I'm not sure), and it's easy to see why. Brian Holsopple's reading brings the characters -- warm, human, flawed and passionate -- to life. The editing is not exactly perfect (there's a couple of pickup lines that Holsopple recorded that are left in, which is a little distracting), but the story is every bit as wonderful as I remember it, and the reading is a great match.<br /><br />Little Fuzzy is in the public domain, so there's both a free ebook and a free recording available of the text. And for the record, I got Tanya Huff's job at Bakka when she retired to write full time. Link to free, public domain reading of Little Fuzzy, Link to free text for Little Fuzzy http://www.archive.org/details/LittleFuzzy<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1244769940110744329-2092415286760382059?l=scifiisfunevenifitsspeculation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rob Hoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02211809421832142963noreply@blogger.com0