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I tell stories about your future.
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Animal activists to restore world’s ‘natural order,’ leaders promise
LOS ANGELES – We ate their ribs for pleasure, tied their testicles so they cannot reproduce, and turned their natural habitats into concrete wastelands, and this week animals around the planet said they are fed up with the destruction people have… Read More ›
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Prophetic sci-fi writer remains unknown, for now
Book Review: Dead Monkeys A.L. Lorentz Once in a generation a science fiction novel is released for public consumption that is so visionary in premise and so masterfully written that it is immediately embraced by the masses and becomes an… Read More ›
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National school strike takes aim at assault rifles
WASHINGTON – The millions of American students, teachers and parents who took to the streets this week and forced a national economic shutdown as part of the #neveragain movement said they are optimistic legislation passed by Congress to ban the… Read More ›
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God’s message heard ‘loud and clear,’ scientists say
MOUNTAIN VIEW – Scientists claim to have detected radio signals sent from deep space that provide personal messages from a source that calls itself the ‘Creator of the Universe,’ raising long-held questions – and now maybe answers – about the… Read More ›
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Weather forecast calls for clear skies and air strikes
Review: Stories Of An Awkward Size Jonathan Swords-Holdsworth, 313 pages Good science fiction is thought-provoking. It makes us reconsider our place in the world in ways that is often dramatic and unsettling. Unlike mysteries or romances, genres built around the… Read More ›
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NEWS FLASH: Russians ‘never stopped fighting’ Cold War
LOS ANGELES – Decades after the global standoff between capitalism and communism ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the ascension of the United States as the world’s greatest superpower, Americans recently have come to suspect theirs was… Read More ›
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‘Bizdic’ helps new employees navigate ‘cold, hostile, unintelligible’ work environment
DOWNTOWN – A new app that translates the often obfuscating jargon used in the business world has shown promise of making new careers at large corporations more manageable for recruits, who often report being overwhelmed by the ‘asinine terminology’ used… Read More ›
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‘Little Black Dot’ sends annoying foes to multiverse
CENTURY CITY – A company that specializes in particle physics announced this week that it has created a device that sends troublesome people on a permanent vacation to another dimension to live out the rest of their unpleasant lives, never… Read More ›
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Do sci-fi nerds dream of electric Deckards?
Blade Runnings 2049, a Disney production starring digitally resurrected John Candy and (careerily resurrected) Douglas E. Douglas as coaches for a misfit replicant bobsled team from Jamaica competing in the 2050 Olympic trials, will grace theaters this October. Our old… Read More ›
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Moderate politics pulverized by ‘Liberators’
Review: Rise of the Liberators Ryan Hyatt, 262 pages Rise of the Liberators is a kind of prequel to Hyatt’s recent Stay Younger Longer. I say ‘kind of’ because it’s more establishing the world that SYL occurs in more than… Read More ›
