Welcome to Carl's Little Slice of the Galaxy

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If you've just stumbled across this Web page, well, welcome to ya! You've probably seen thousands of these paint by the number Web pages. They're great for those of us who don't have a working knowledge of HTML or just don't have the time to learn it. So we click here, we click there, and Voila! A personal Web page.
Twenty years ago, this was Science Fiction.
Now, it's reality.
Kirk used a communicator to talk with Spock and McCoy on the Enterprise.
Now you and I can use our cell phones to reach distances almost as far.
Robert Heinlein first described "Waldoes."
As well as the waterbed.
Arthur Clarke first postulated geosynchronous satellites.
Today's SciFi is tomorrow's Sci Fact.
But then, you already new that, didn't you???
This Web Page is all about Science Fiction, which has been one of the few constants in my life. Relationships have come and gone, loved ones have left this life, careers have changed at the drop of a hat, but SF has always been there, since I was old enough to read a Superman comic.
Or read Larry Niven's latest story.
Or watch a new episode of STAR TREK (from TOS on), or long forgotten episodes or ROCKY JONES or COMMANDO CODY.
I love the genre so much, I'm going to follow Heinlein's Rule's For Writers and try writing my own. If I get published, it will be because I was inspired early on, by Asimov, Heinlein, Niven, Ellison, Kuttner, Brunner, and scores of others.
It's been said, probably by a Fan, that "SF is the only fiction worth reading."
Well, maybe not. But for me, it's the first section I head for when I walk into my local bookstore.

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Star Trek (duh!)

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SFWA

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SciFi.Com

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Okay, so the next question is,
What do you get out of SF?
(And I'm going to use SF from now on; sorry, I've always hated the term "SciFi.")
I get the usual Sense of Wonder.
Worlds beyond, what lies ahead, strange creatures from other planets.
How about you?

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MY TOP FIVE WRITERS (in no particular order)
Heinlein
Niven
Asimov
Ellison
Clarke
MY TOP FIVE SF NOVELS (in no particular order)
Ringworld
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Mote In God's Eye
The Foundation Trilogy (taken as a single entity)
The Number Of The Beast
MY TOP FIVE SF MOVIES (in etc, etc,)
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
2001
Them

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THESE AREN'T SF:
Star Wars
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Mercedes Lackey's VALDEMAR novels
THESE ARE SF:
The Foundation Trilogy
Star Trek
"All You Zombies!"

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