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Anne McCaffrey Dragons. Creatures of legend, and also the title characters in many of Anne McCaffrey's books. . Anne McCaffrey is an excellent writer of Sci Fi/Fantasy books. McCaffrey has been writing full time since the late 60's and during her…

, and exciting. Some really good food for thought but the plot cleaned up at the end a little too well, ending overly fabricated. Out of the Silent Planet is a sci-fi story with a difference. A criticism on the belief in interplanetary colonization, the title…

. This movie started like 'Rambo' and ended like 'Aliens' and the breakneck pace of the movie spells 'Hollywood'. Still, the originality and the creativity of this action sci-fi make it a powerful blockbuster. As the film opens, Schwarzenegger and his comrades…

Internet Source #1: Lunar Bases When people think of lunar bases they normally think about sci-fi movies and books, but to some people this is a serious subject that takes some further investigation. One of the first projects that dealt…

is that the monsters looks are something we aren't familiar with, or don't understand. Most Sci-Fi movies have the alien as the monster. The alien is always slimy and deformed. Aliens frighten us because we do not understand them, and because the look the Hollywood gives…

report President Clinton issued a ban on all federal funding aimed at cloning human beings. All of a sudden, the idea that one could create a perfect replica of another individual seemed less like a scene out of a sci-fi film, and more like a very distinct…

movie, fit for any Sci-Fi fan. The only disappointing factor was perhaps the lack of an ending; they only just touched on the issues of humanity and equality with machines. Perhaps this will be more closely covered in the soon to come sequel. Overall I would…

intelligent forms of life there are in the universe that are able to communicate. The Drake Equation is: <Tab/>N = (N*)(fp)(ne)(f1)(fi)(fc)(fL), where <Tab/>N = the number of communicable civilizations in the universe &…

Algerians in the subsequent generation were not satisfied, however, and moved to counter the FLN's centrality in Algerian politics. The surprising first round success of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) in the December 1991 balloting spurred the Algerian army…

morning when I wake up I say a little poem,” Fee-Fi-Fo-Fumm.” I wrote it myself, I’m quite the poet. Getting back to my story, I was awakened by the sound of or at least what sounded like small little footsteps. I was curious what this noise was so I got up out…