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Posted At: 3/29/2023 9:39:26 AM
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Curious about what’s out there? Tired of mainstream entertainment ruining all your favorite franchises? Downstream Pulp covers the latest in Iron Age creations, not to mention original tales. A place where literature fans can relax, grab a warm beverage, and discuss the wonders of the…
Posted At: 12/29/2021 4:45:22 PM
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We go to the movies for entertainment, maybe to get away from the reality of our world and just for a few moments we escape that reality and enter a ‘Twilight Zone’ if you will, of adventure, romance, and the like. But is it possible someone is trying to tell you something? Is there ‘full…
Posted At: 4/8/2021 10:08:33 PM
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There was once a COBOL programmer in the mid to late 1990s. For the sake of this story, we'll call him Jack. After years of being taken for granted and treated as a technological dinosaur by all the UNIX programmers and Client/Server programmers and website developers, Jack was finally getting some…
Posted At: 3/26/2021 10:35:54 PM
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I: In the year after Lorraine’s death I contemplated suicide six times. Contemplated it seriously, I mean: six times sat with the fat bottle of Clonazepam within reaching distance, six times failed to reach for it, betrayed by some instinct for life or disgusted by my own weakness.<br/>I can’t say I…
Posted At: 4/26/2020 10:29:10 PM
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If we accept all the Star Wars films as the same canon (as it seems we must) then a lot that happens in the original films has to be reinterpreted in the light of the prequels. As we now know, the rebel Alliance was founded by Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Bail Organa. What can readily be deduced is…
Posted At: 3/10/2020 6:58:28 PM
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Kzinti were mentioned for the first time since the animated series!<br/>Star Trek Picard: Every Easter Egg & Hidden Reference From 'Nepenthe'
Posted At: 2/28/2020 10:02:51 AM
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An old book I read in the late 1970s which I really liked and may have been the inspiration for the devices used in the Stargate TV and book series. This book is actually the third book in a series, but I highly recommend reading this one first. With the backstory more developed, it makes this one…
Posted At: 1/16/2020 6:22:20 PM
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THE VISITORS FROM PLANET VETA<br/>Reinhold W. Goll<br/>Illustrated by G. O. James<br/>The Westminster Press, Philadelphia<br/>Copyright © MCMLXI [1961] Reinhold W. Goll<br/>Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 61-7692<br/>November 28, 1961<br/>To my grandchildren<br/>Suzanne, Barbara, and Amy<br/>Alan, Sandy, and Stephen<br/>[Transcribed…
Posted At: 2/28/2019 4:47:35 PM
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Two hundred light years from Earth an immense structure rotates around a yellow star. A million miles across, six hundred million miles in circumference, the Ringworld spins fast enough to provide an artificial gravity almost identical to that of Earth. Twenty ‘shadow squares’ orbiting closer to…
Posted At: 2/22/2019 2:18:24 PM
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