Camestros Felapton

The second novel in Corey’s non-Expanse series opens up the universe of the setting.

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The influence of Japanese culture on the US in the 1990s increased not just via the existing commercial connection of toys and TV shows for children.

Mecha starts as a shortening in Japanese of the English word mechanism, but with a general meaning of machines in popular culture.

There is a tendency for deep arguments to rapidly wander into shallow arguments about word definitions.

It’s been about two weeks, but the official Dragon Award website only lists the finalists, not the winners. https://web.archive.org/web/20260921194803/https://awards.dragoncon.org/ I’m not surprised, given past experience, but even after 10 years, the odd…

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Historian Eric Hobsbawm’s history of the Twentieth Century is entitled The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century.

This is a follow up to a footnote, but also a long time ago I am pretty sure I wrote about what combination of Star Trek/Doctor Who would have worked best for a crossover.

In the 1960s, Star Trek made an impression, but not enough for it to last more than three seasons.

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Picking a starting point in this story is difficult, but as transformation is an inherent theme, I’ll start in the USA in the mid-1960s.

As I was warned, bosses are difficult to defeat, but for those of us who struggle to time a dodge-parry-strike-roll timed carefully to match the moves of some giant being, the game is quite generous.

There’s a long-standing internet story that RoboCop evolved out of an adaptation of the 2000AD Judge Dredd comics.

File 770 has the list https://file770.com/2026-dragon-awards-winners/ and DragonCon has a press release: https://www.dragoncon.org/resources/media-pr-resources/pressreleases/ They don’t release numbers, but as is traditional, the press release has a vague…

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An odd side effect of my interests and current historical circumstances is that I’ve spent a lot of time writing about the overlap of right-wing beliefs and science fiction.

In the previous post, I said I had another graph.

Unlike yesterday, there will be some 2023 stuff in this post.

I’ve created a minor burden for myself by keeping the spreadsheet I created for the 2023 Chengdu analysis updated for subsequent years.

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