5 Essential Frank Herbert Novels That Aren't About Dune There are probably several schools on this. One school (of which I'm a member) would be that God Emperor (the fourth book) basically jumped the shark (or maybe the shark was jumped somewhere in Children Of Dune, even) and that while Herbert may have been getting back into the driver's seat right before he died, Chapterhouse: Dune isn't really good enough to justify slogging through its two predecessors. So you can safely just read the first three books (Dune, Dune Messiah, Children Of Dune) and pretend the rest never happened. The second school, I believe, would be that God Emperor Of Dune is Frank Herbert's masterpiece (or something close to it) and you really need to read it (and Dune, of course), and then the remaining books in the original sextet become essential filler. As for the sequels and prequels co-authored by Frank Herbert's son, Brian, allegedly from Frank Herbert's notes: there's an even wider divide between people who think the Brian Herbert/Kevin J. Dune Heretics of Dune
BookRabbit - BookRabbit home. Social platform and online booksto Digital Opportunity Index (DOI) Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are fundamentally changing how firms do business and how countries compete in the new ‘information economy’. This shift, and the rapid evolution of these technologies, led to concerns among economists and the international community that developing countries are being left behind in the emerging Information Society – not just in basic infrastructure, but in their abilities to compete in service industries, experience, and skilled labor. At the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), a UN Summit organized by the International Telecommunication Union in a unique two-phase format (Geneva 2003, Tunis 2005), governments and world leaders made a strong commitment towards building a people-centered, inclusive and development-oriented Information Society for all, where everyone can access, utilize and share information and knowledge.
A Mosque Among The Stars available for free! | Islam and Science Fiction A Mosque Among The Stars was the first anthology that dealt with the subject of Muslim characters and/or Islamic themes and Science Fiction. It was edited by me (Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad) and the Canadian Muslim author Ahmad Khan. It came out in 2007. Now that it has been years since it was released in printed form, we have decided to release A Mosque Among The Stars to the public as a Creative Commons Licensed (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs) book. Download the Book For the readers who are coming to this website for the first time be sure to check out my other sci-fi related Art-Project – Silicon Arabic.
quot;Hip, modern crafting books: PART 2" The Real Story: Why ComScore’s Google Clicks are Flat GOOG has fallen from a high of $747 a share to less than $450 intra day yesterday. The latest 10% or so drop comes as comScore reports that clicks on Google ads in the United States were flat in January when compared with a year earlier. But why? WHY are Clicks flat from a year ago? To find out what really happened, let’s take a short stroll down memory lane: all the way back to the middle of October 2007. To set the scene, picture ten men clad in dark blue business suits in a smoke filled executive boardroom deciding how to squeeze the last nickel out of customers for shareholder value. To reset the scene, imagine something like the 10-year reunion of your University’s Computer Science Fraternity set in an office best described as Geek Paradise. Googleoid says to GoogleDork, “You know, [snort-laugh], most Adsense clicks are an accident because of the clickable area of the Adsense Ads.” GoogleDork Replies (in his best Yoda Voice) “Foolish you are in the way of the Click. The Aftermath
Was poet John Milton the father of science fiction? Image from Wikimedia Commons Before an ominous two-handed engine called “budget constraints” smote it into oblivion, a movie adaption of Milton’s Paradise Lost was slated to arrive in 2013. Directed by Alex Proyas and starring Bradley Cooper as Satan, the film was billed as a science fiction actioner featuring 3-D “aerial warfare” between heavenly hosts and (probably) a lot of dark muttering about forbidden knowledge. Katy Waldman is a Slate assistant editor. Follow But that doesn’t mean we should forget Paradise Lost as the holidays roll in. Not to mention that the text of Paradise Lost is saturated in science. Also, Milton kinda sorta thought that extraterrestrial life might be possible. Then there’s Milton’s obsession with secret, all-powerful technologies. Yikes. And if you need more proof that John Milton inspired generations of sci-fi progeny, note that the creature in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein liked to read books.
The New Face of Amazon - Tags, Ajax, Plogs & Wikis Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus Lately Amazon has been introducing a raft of 'web 2.0' features to its e-commerce website. In this post we explore how Amazon has implemented tagging, Ajax, blogs and wikis - and ask whether it's made much difference to the user experience, and to the bottom line. Amazon continues to refine its web site and roll out gems that no one else has. But these are just some of Amazon's recent innovations, many others are popping up. Amazon the tagging company? We are still in the midst of the social bookmarking and tagging revolution - at least based on the numbers that came up in our analysis of trends using Technorati and Seth Godin's list. Its worth noting that there are quite a lot of tags, even though the product is recent. Using Tags to power recommendations What is Amazon going to do with all these tags? Amazon's infrastructure analyses and categorizes huge volumes of text on a daily basis. Ajaxification of Amazon Plogs Amazon Wikis
Social Networks Nab More Than Contacts — They Save Careers Written on Feb 27, 2008 Author Dave Winget | “Brand yourself as a professional, become an authority in your field” this was the greatest advice I ever received. Suddenly people knew who I was, they knew my name, and they were looking for me. People started to contact me and ask if I was available to help them with their web projects. Last Monday I was downsized from the agency I was working with. Two hours later I had a better agency job and started the next day. Had I not branded myself, had people not known anything about me – I would likely still be out hitting the pavement and trying to find work. I cannot speak for other industries but for online marketing branding yourself can be the most valuable thing you will ever do for your career. Dave Winget has been in the online marketing industry for the past 10 years and is currently working as a senior SEO manager with a full service interactive agency in Denver, Colorado. Reader Comments. Bookmarked and filed under motivation/inspiration.
Science Fiction Under Totalitarian Regimes, Part 2: Tsarist and Soviet Russia “Aelita is a planetary romance in which Los, a Soviet scientist and inventor, travels to Mars and, with the help of a Red Army officer, overthrows the fascist civilization there and institutes a Communist paradise.” - Well, this summary of the plot is, of course, wonderfully snappy with that added ironic underside of dismissive hindsight, but is utterly incorrect. As anyone who has actually read the soviet ‘Princess of Mars’ knows, the two protagonists - ‘Los the engineer’ and ‘Gusev the red soldier of fortune’ – are at odds from the start. Los is a moody dreamer, content to remain on decadent Mars and maybe make love to Aelita, while Gusev can’t wait to stir up trouble. The Martian society (based on a conquest of locals by migrating Earth Atlanteans thousands of years ago) is dying, yet Gusev manages to infect the fatalist working underclass with the energy for an uprising, which quickly degenerates into chaos and is crushed.
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