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Fans create unofficial new trailer for Disney's 'John Carter'
Company Town"John Carter" fans created their own unauthorized version of the new film trailer for Walt Disney Studios' upcoming space adventure movie.... -
Summer page-turners
Act of Passion A Novel Georges Simenon New York Review Books: $14.95 paper Though successful at his work and family life, a doctor grows dissatisfied and restless and thinks a casual affair is the perfect answer—until the consequences are far...Tags: Crimes, Warsaw (Poland), New York City Police Department, Literature, Human Interest
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2011 Hugo Award nominees announced
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David Nolan dies at 66; founder of the Libertarian Party
David F. Nolan, whose disgruntlement with conventional politics — especially President Nixon's imposition of wage and price controls in 1971 — drove him to launch the Libertarian Party with a small group of friends, has died. He was 66.
Nolan...Tags: Richard Nixon, Republican Party, Politics, U.S. Senate, Heads of State
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Astral Weeks: A sci-fi master's beginnings
Special to the Los Angeles Times"I am submitting the enclosed short story 'LIFE-LINE' for either 'Astounding' or 'Unknown,'" Robert A. Heinlein wrote to editor John Campbell in 1939, "because I am not sure which policy it fits the better." The former magazine published science fiction,...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Science and Technology, Scientology, Annapolis, Literature
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From the Vaults: 'First Spaceship on Venus' (1960)
The Daily MirrorWell, "First Spaceship on Venus" is quite the odd little movie: a vintage space epic filmed in East Germany and co-produced with Poland. It features an international team of characters and a strong anti-nuclear message! Released in German as "Der... -
A familiar story in a new universe
REWRITING a famous story from a different character's point of view has become common enough that the results constitute a genre of their own. John Gardner saw "Beowulf" through the monster's eyes in "Grendel"; Jean Rhys' "Wide Sargasso Sea" excavated the...Tags: Teen-agers, Crimes, Senior Citizens, Harry Potter (fictional character), Joe Haldeman
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Neal Stephenson takes the long view
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSEATTLE -- For all of Neal Stephenson's achievements, his most impressive may be his ability to attract a following equal parts hacker and literati. His popularity is all the more anomalous because his books are always long and often difficult. His last...Tags: Computer Crime, Crimes, National Security, National Security Agency, Science and Technology
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Music of the mind
Astral Weeks Pop Quiz: Name the piece of music responsible for these flights of fancy:
Example one: "About fifteen minutes [in] . . . I have entered a different reality and am in a strange part of the universe where you can sit on the tail of a flaming...Tags: Depression, Death, Led Zeppelin (music group), Science and Technology, Black Sabbath (music group)
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PASSINGS
Cornelia Wallace Former first lady of Ala. Cornelia Wallace, 69, who as first lady of Alabama threw herself over Gov. George C. Wallace after he was shot in an assassination attempt during the 1972 presidential campaign, died Thursday of cancer in...Tags: Crimes, Lung Cancer, Regional Authority, Science and Technology, World Series
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Robert Silverberg, science fiction elder statesman
Right about then, the Age of Aquarius seemed to be reaching an apocalyptic conclusion: Amid campus riots, a contentious war and political assassinations, it was hard not to feel fatalistic. And Robert Silverberg, a New York writer who'd recently...Tags: Education, William Friedkin, Science and Technology, Ray Bradbury, Health and Safety at School
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Frank Herbert's 'Dune' holds timely - and timeless - appeal
Half a century ago, a middle-aged newspaperman with a few obscure books to his name sat down to pursue a pet obsession based on a story that had never sold.
The ensuing 1965 novel -- in which his agent had no confidence -- sagged at first. But within a...Tags: University of California, Science and Technology, Peter Berg, Islam, Charles Laughton
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