Week 22
04.01.02
It's been 50 years since Wernher von Braun
astounded America with his visionary spaceflight schemes.
Those gizmos have all the archaic majesty of Cleopatra's
barge.
http://home.flash.net/~aajiv/bd/uss1.html
04.02.02
Why not start your workday with the awesome
visual poetry of an open-air, atomic test shot? Makes
great desktop pics just ask your colleagues!
http://www.nv.doe.gov/news&pubs/
photos&films/atm.htm
Show them what one of those babies might do to your
office!
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/
sfeature/mapablast.html
04.03.02
Wow, Ursula Le Guin's website is really
classy and elegant.
http://www.ursulakleguin.com/UKL_info.html
Not without a certain vengeful piquancy, however.
http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Reject.html
04.04.02
I really have to think that the schtick at
futurefeedforward is the best web-based science fiction around.
Utter genius.
http://www.futurefeedforward.com/
04.05.02
Every kid on earth has got corny
dinosaurs. T. Rex, velociraptors, they're commoner than sheep.
If you're looking for paleontological exotica, you gotta go to
the Burgess Shale. Nothing can make Anamalocaris look like
Barney. It's just two feet long, granted, but the thought of
those spiny clutching arm-fangs, that circular jaw gnawing your
ankle
http://www.trollart.com/ANOMALCARIS.html
Check out that swimming animation, it's straight out of EC
horror comics
"The water's *boiling* with Anomalocarii!
There's *thousands* of 'em! AIIIEEE! <choke> Good
Lord!"
http://www.paleoindustrial.com/
Anomalocaris%201-B.htm
"Hallucigenia" after the acid mellowed out.
http://burgessshale.com/onychophorans.htm
Let's face it: "Opabinia" is a joke.
http://www.yerf.com/morgsusa/opabinia.jpg
Get your cool plastic replicas here!
http://www.linkandpinhobbies.com/Graphics
/pp_laggania.jpg
http://www.linkandpinhobbies.com/Graphics
/pp_opabinia.jpg
http://www.linkandpinhobbies.com/Graphics
/pp_pikaia.jpg
http://www.linkandpinhobbies.com/Graphics
/pp_wiwaxia.jpg
Bruce Sterling is a science-fiction writer who lives in Texas. The sun is a G-type star out towards the edge of the Milky Way.
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