Books.

Note for Diane Duane fans: _The Big Meow_, volume 3 of the series that started with _Book of Night With Moon_, is now being written and published online. $22.50 will get you all ten chapters, as they come out, and a printed version of the book when it's all done. http://www.the-big-meow.com/

Recently reread: _The Black Star Passes_, J.W. Campbell, Jr. Book one of the Arcot, Wade and Morey trilogy, in which the laws of science are conveniently rewritten or ignored about once per chapter.
Conservation of mass and energy? Pfui! This pretty much defines early space opera: Humanity Uber Alles, lone genius/mad scientists who can recognize a new physical phenomenon by its visual signature, deduce the working principles over lunch, and improve upon it by breakfast time... The modern successors includes things like Jeffrey Kooistra's _Dykstra's War_, Travis Taylor's _The Quantum Connection_, and Jerry Oltion's _Abandon in Place_ -- fun, lightweight, and violating causality because they can, dammit. The modern version tends not to ignore women quite so much -- in Campbell's universe, women are only there as secretaries and wives, if at all.

Books.

Note for Diane Duane fans: _The Big Meow_, volume 3 of the series that started with _Book of Night With Moon_, is now being written and published online. $22.50 will get you all ten chapters, as they come out, and a printed version of the book when it's all done. http://www.the-big-meow.com/

Recently reread: _The Black Star Passes_, J.W. Campbell, Jr. Book one of the Arcot, Wade and Morey trilogy, in which the laws of science are conveniently rewritten or ignored about once per chapter.
Conservation of mass and energy? Pfui! This pretty much defines early space opera: Humanity Uber Alles, lone genius/mad scientists who can recognize a new physical phenomenon by its visual signature, deduce the working principles over lunch, and improve upon it by breakfast time... The modern successors includes things like Jeffrey Kooistra's _Dykstra's War_, Travis Taylor's _The Quantum Connection_, and Jerry Oltion's _Abandon in Place_ -- fun, lightweight, and violating causality because they can, dammit. The modern version tends not to ignore women quite so much -- in Campbell's universe, women are only there as secretaries and wives, if at all.