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The Libertarian Futurist Society has announced finalists for this year's Prometheus Awards, which will be presented during the 70th World Science Fiction Convention over Labor Day weekend in Chicago. The Prometheus finalists for Best Novel recognize pro-freedom novels published last year. The Libertarian Futurist Society has announced finalists for this […]

I recently went shopping for some new ebooks for my iPad, and decided to look up a few of my favorite authors. Surely, I thought, David Brin must have a new book out by now. And it's been a while since I checked up on John Scalzi. In every case I found that my favorite authors did do have new books coming out ... just not now. All of them are releasing […]

Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land by Red Wasp Designs Platform: iOS (iPhone, iPad universal app) $4.99 Web site Red Wasp Designs' The Wasted Land takes Call of Cthulhu to the iPad and iPhone, transforming RPG horror into a turn-based squad game that seeks to prevent a German mythos cult from unleashing an army of undead during World War I. The game unfol […]

It’s been a while, but the recent A:CM traffic from E3 has got my Alien saliva flowing. First thing’s first – check out the new trailer: Just a little tease, but so sexy!! […]

I finally got to spend some time with my new Rock Band 3 Pro Guitar controller last night. While it is certainly not a real guitar, it translates surprisingly well – even for someone who actually plays guitar.  There are a few little niggling differences. The strings are all the same width, which sometimes makes […]

We meet again, reader! After a short hiatus, I began to miss writing and decided to bring SCB back up on a new (read: free) hosting service.  Hopefully, I’ll have some interesting things to share, and I highly encourage everyone reading to comment and participate! Please excuse the broken image links in legacy posts.  Many […]

The Unincorporated Man stands as a winner of the Prometheus Award, given for remarkable Science Fiction of a Libertarian bend. Reading this book, it can be plainly seen why it won this award.I generally don’t like to get into politics when discussing SF literature, but there are times when a book IS political, and that must be considered when reading. As suc […]

Tau Zero is one of those books that I had always meant to read, but never really got around to it. It recently came up (somewhere) and I remembered how I had wanted to add it to my collection, but this time decided to do something about it. Book acquired, I set down to read it.This book, like a lot of Poul Anderson’s work, comes from a different era of SF: t […]

Following on the heels of Marsbound by Haldeman, I read Starbound as soon as I was done with the previous book. As this is a sequel, it was a logical course of action...In Marsbound, we discover intelligent life on Mars, life that was bio-engineered to be the mouthpieces of an advanced alien civilization based on silicon-oxides and existing in a sort of cryo […]

I picked this kit up some time ago as an impluse buy. I was vaguely familiar with Heller as a model producer, having worked on a Somua H-39 and wa-ay back an AMX-30. They're not a top-notch producer, but often if there is something you want that is French, they're the ones to look at first.The AMX-13 was a post-war light tank, using an oscillating […]

Occasionally in the build process you come to a point where you have to wonder about the effort of moving on, and what is needed.The Tamiya kit stands here, half completed. The roadblock is that the interior looks more challennging than I had first estimated. I'm not thinking that I will need to pick up the Eduard set for this kit, if for no other reaso […]

Accepted into service in 1951, the ASU-57 was an attempt by the Soviets to develop an airborne, air-droppable light AFV to support Soviet Airborne forces. While the 57mm Ch-51 cannon was more effective in the anti-tank role than the 76.2 D-56T cannon then arming the PT-76 tanks, it would stilll have had trouble dealing with heavier tanks and the like. In add […]