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...difficult. The science-fiction field, formerly a gentlemen's club run by the likes of Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert and Arthur C. Clarke, now has a woman at the top of the charts. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin, 53, won both Hugo and Nebula prizes, sci-fi's Pulitzers. Le Guin also won the National Book Award for her children's novel The Farthest Shore in 1972. Her 22 books, most of which are science fiction, have en livened the hardware-oriented genre with emotional immediacy, much as Ray Bradbury's haunting...
...hero, its understanding of ecology and its references to mind-expanding drugs, Dune found a large and appreciative audience during the mid-'60s. It was a book the young readers made, largely through word of mouth-"far out," "mind blowing," etc. Dune won both a Hugo and a Nebula, science fiction's most coveted annual awards. Sales eventually hit nearly 2 million copies. But Dune was only the beginning of a long-running drama, the first part of which is now being filmed in North Africa. In 1969 Herbert published Dune Messiah, which has since sold more than...
Cassinelli, working with John S. Mathis and Blair D. Savage, discovered R136A last summer using information collected by the International Ultra-Violet Explorer Satellite. The star is located 150,000 light years away inside the gaseous Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic cloud, a neighboring galaxy to the Milky Way. It is surrounded by ultra-violet rays which give the nebula its blue glow...
Until recently, the only information scientists had about this nebula was from its random sightings from the earth's Southern Hemisphere. Recently, it has been resolved to consist of several individual sources of light, but R136A is the first actual star that astronomers have spotted amidst this massive cloud. But some doubts remain among scientists...
...refrain: "Get up, get out, get into something new" and "Ooooooh, and it's got me moving." In short, it's the Stones' finest statement yet of urban rootlessness and mutability, a world where nothing counts unless it's brand new and fast-moving, a gaseous world, a great nebula, where nothing is complete or permanent except New York's concrete garbage cans, where even "Dance" is only "Part...