ICon starts tomorrow (Orson Scott Card is our Guest of Honor!), and first thing in the morning I give a talk called Introduction to Roleplaying Games. I promised explanations, anecdotes, demonstrations, audience participation and dragon taming
. I wonder how on Earth I’ll deliver all that…
An article (in Hebrew) about Grendizer, a giant robot anime that I used to watch on Jordanian TV in the 70s or early 80s, at the site of the Israeli society for Science Fiction & Fantasy. This was a really cool show. Too bad it wasn’t a hit in the US, and so seems to have fallen into obscurity. Except on the Internet: Here’s a page on an Italian site (in English) about the show, called UFO Robot Grendizer and a Canadian site by someone who show the show in French, under the title Goldorak.
Scientists develop ‘bacterial battery’ (BBC News, also via diepunyhumans) reminds me of the super-nonobacteria ßehemoth, from Peter Watts’ SF novel Starfish.
ראיון ב”בלי פאניקה” עם קוני ויליס.