"[T]he official Girl Guide's pledge in the United States still makes mention of God."

"These rare 'bone ship' models tend to sell for tens of thousands of dollars at auction, as collectors go nuts for these macabre historical relics."

Looks like someone was doing doughnuts on Mars...

The colors and outfits make me think more of Pikachu than Harry Potter...

Geeze, this argument again?

Must have missed that one. The rest of the speech from which that quote appeared is actually very, very good. It was the 1973 James Forrestal Lecture at the U.S. Naval academy, reprinted in the January 1974 issue of Analog. A lot about being persistent and determined as a writer, to not let rejection get you down.…

I'm not saying it was particularly good advice. I, too, edit the heck out of my manuscripts. And after serving as the guest editor of an anthology, I was shocked at how little work people do to their stories before sending it out.

By the power of Grayskull, these images are nice!

In a lecture are the U.S. Naval Academy in 1973, Robert Heinlein insisted that you should never rewrite. Cut and correct, yes. But rewriting, he said, indicates that you're smarter today than you were yesterday.

Mermaid bewbs. Yeah, I went there.

This new discussion system sucks! Please, please, please integrate something where you can view all.

Exciting news indeed!

Great pics! Glad they didn't come with smell-o-vision.

Gah, you can!!

Awww, what a cutie! Glad he found a good home!

Love, love, love the Norman Rockwell-inspired one. Would seriously buy a framed print of it.

Let me know when they make one that has an output of exactly. 1.21 gigawatts.

Uh...where's The Stand?

"[H]e stayed on board ship for the remainder of the journey, accompanied by the cremated remains of his mother."

"I'll make my own sci-fi movie. With blackjack. And hookers. In fact, forget the movie!"