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...though he would warble like a pretty songbird, but his singing is forceful and worldly, as if he has already seen it all. And he has. Tonight, he croons folksongs of impossible love, betrayal and heroism that flow from the depths of Afghanistan's tragic history. Under a nebula of hashish smoke, two men leap up to dance, circling each other like angry cobras. They turn aggressive and are pulled apart?even the boy's mesmerizing song cannot keep Afghans from fighting for long. When performances get wild, says Mirwais, he tells himself: "I must not be scared, never...
...astonishing images beaming down from the Hubble Space Telescope just got better. The first pictures from a new high-resolution camera, installed in March, arrived last week, and they are out of this world. This photo of a stellar nursery is a close-up of the Cone Nebula, a cloud of gas and dust some 2,500 light-years from Earth. From top to bottom, the celestial pillar shown here spans 2.5 light-years--3,000 times the size of our solar system. Stars are being born within the cloud as dense knots of gas collapse and flare with nuclear...
...stigma of elitism in her day-to-day life, the bestselling author's work has brought her into an elite group of writers. Le Guin is one of the most successful science fiction authors of all time, both critically and commercially. She has won the annual Hugo and Nebula awards five times. Her young adult series beginning with The Wizard of Earthsea has won the Newbery Silver Medal and four separate Children's Book of the Year awards. More than three million copies of her books are in print, and they include children's stories, poetry collections, and even...
Well, our prurient, inappropriate concern did add a buzz to an overlong buffet of stardust memories. Smith dishes--remembering, for instance, a farcical night dropping acid with actress Holland Taylor. But she does it, generally, with obsequious reverence and block-that-metaphor prose (Joan Crawford was "her own nebula--a woman who hauled herself up by her bootstraps and created her glittering star self from scratch"). That soft touch has made her the Barbara Walters of gossip, with access to match. "[W]ouldn't you rather I dealt with it Liz Smith-style?" she asks subjects. After a few hundred...
...course, I believe, as many do, that all these changes will become moot owing to the coming invasion of Superior Beings from the 12th Quadrant of the Fifth Dimension, known to us earthers as the Great Nebula in Orion (see my essay "Who Will Destroy Our Civilization and Lay Waste to Life on Earth as We Know It in the Next Century?" in the next Visions issue). If the indicators are correct, the mother ship of these Ecstatic Beings will emit a cloud of radioactive gas that blankets the planet, wiping out all life for a period...