It's refreshing that it's not a zombie story, and no ugly aliens causing the end of the world. Thanks, Dad.And I want to recommend Los Últimos Días, a very well done post-apocalyptic tale from Spain.
KOSMOS MSTS MOVIE
It's one of my fondest memories of my father, and Godzilla became one of my favorite movie monsters. Dad knew I loved dinosaurs and had loved seeing Gorgo, the British version of Godzilla, when I was younger. The film was, of course, Godzilla, King of the Monsters, the American version of Gojira, dubbed, starring Raymond Burr. He helped me wake up, made me a cup of that good Navy cocoa, and for the next 90 minutes I was spellbound.
KOSMOS MSTS TV
Dad told me I had to get up early Saturday morning, that there was something special on TV that I would enjoy. When I was six years old, my father was serving in the US Navy, and we were living in New Jersey, not far from Lakehurst Naval Air Station, famous for the crash of the Hindenburg airship back in the 1930's. Did you know that plastic model cement is now scented orange? I miss the heady fumes of the original Testors glue. We just finished a model of the USS Arizona for his Pearl Harbor history project, so we've had some practice.
I may have to volunteer my now 12-year-old son to help me assemble it. And even though cats on the Internet have bigger followings than this little blog, I shouldn't abandon it out of disgust for the low state of science fiction these days.Īnd what else of science-fiction interest has come my way? Monsters in Motion sent me notice of this new, beautiful plastic model of the Cosmostrator, from First Spaceship on Venus, (German: Der Schweigende Stern - "The Silent Star"), adapted from Stanislaw Lem's story The Astronauts. I need to take pen/keyboard in hand and write another Kosmosflot story to show my appreciation to him.
KOSMOS MSTS PDF
Joseph was kind enough to create a pdf collection of my works, complete with a cover and artwork. So why come back to this orbital zone? Mainly because of a kind fellow in Japan, Joseph Ficor, who's been a fan of my short stories. I follow Bill Keith's science fiction, always have, and I was happy to see he will be the guest of honor at Pittsburgh's Confluence 2014 science-fiction convention. I found myself rereading the works of Roland Green ( Starship Shenandoah), Robert Frezza ( A Small Colonial War), and revisiting favorites like The Mote in God's Eye. But when the usual Baen-style extreme politics start hitting me over the head, I put it back. I occasionally pick up a Baen book, ahem, from the library. And hardly a spaceship to be found anywhere, alas. The science fiction section at my library and local bookstore (only one store left!) are filled with fantasy novels or depictions of women looking like Conan the Barbarian or Jean-Claude van Damme. Later on, reading John Scalzi's condescending words about straight white males was another. Witnessing John Ringo's raging melt down at Windy Con in 2008 was one. Fact is, I took a break from science fiction for many reasons. Four-and-a-half years since I last posted here at Kosmosflot.
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