Monthly Archives: August 2018
Celestial Attic Podcast – August 31, 2018
This is today’s Celestial Attic Podcast, the weekday calendar edition. This is also a format change to a shorter calendar-only podcast for consumption in your daily flash brief on Amazon’s echo or other audio device. Look for longer podcasts featuring news, reviews and interviews on the weekends.
Asimov – SF Rebirth since 1938
Celestial Attic Podcast – August 30, 2018
This is today’s Celestial Attic Podcast, the weekday calendar edition. This is also a format change to a shorter calendar-only podcast for consumption in your daily flash brief on Amazon’s echo or other audio device. Look for longer podcasts featuring news, reviews and interviews on the weekends.
Heinlein Speech at Midamericon, 1976
Celestial Attic Podcast – August 29, 2018
This is today’s Celestial Attic Podcast, the weekday calendar edition. This is also a format change to a shorter calendar-only podcast for consumption in your daily flash brief on Amazon’s echo or other audio device. Look for longer podcasts featuring news, reviews and interviews on the weekends.
Your chance to win!
Ok readers, answer a trivia question and enter to win a hardback copy of The New Avengers Volume 6 from Imaginary Worlds Comics and Collectables located at 13446 Cedar Rd. in Cleveland Heights. What is the hometown of comics author Brian Michael Bendis?
Email your answer to CelestialAttic2018@celestialattic.com to enter the drawing. Don’t miss the in-person drawings at the Picnic at the End of the Universe.
Immediate family members of Celestial Attic’s owners and employees are ineligible to win. You must be 18 and older to win. No purchase is required to win. Once you’ve won, you are done. I’m looking at you Darrin.
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Nausicca made real…
Hayao Miyazaki’s 1984 animated epic 風の谷のナウシカ, or Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind took a step closer to reality in 2014 when Nausicaä’s flying wing took flight.
Celestial Attic Podcast – August 28, 2018
This is today’s Celestial Attic Podcast, the weekday calendar edition. This is also a format change to a shorter calendar-only podcast for consumption in your daily flash brief on Amazon’s echo or other audio device. Look for longer podcasts featuring news, reviews and interviews on the weekends.
Nebula award winner Babel-17 for $1.99
![Babel-17 by [Delany, Samuel R.]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ArKSdnFvL.jpg)
Heads up, Samuel R. Delany’s Babel-17 is for sale on your Kindle for $1.99. Your purchase helps out Celestial Attic in a small way, and you get a GREAT read. Can a poet save the war effort, or will she see the humanity in her enemies? They say:
At twenty-six, Rydra Wong is the most popular poet in the five settled galaxies. Almost telepathically perceptive, she has written poems that capture the mood of mankind after two decades of savage war. Since the invasion, Earth has endured famine, plague, and cannibalism—but its greatest catastrophe will be Babel-17.
Sabotage threatens to undermine the war effort, and the military calls in Rydra. Random attacks lay waste to warships, weapons factories, and munitions dumps, and all are tied together by strings of sound, broadcast over the radio before and after each accident. In that gibberish Rydra recognizes a coherent message, with all of the beauty, persuasive power, and order that only language possesses. To save humanity, she will master this strange tongue. But the more she learns, the more she is tempted to join the other side . . .
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Samuel R. Delany including rare images from his early career.
