Retired young, older than I look, love sci-fi,, write for fun, MiMi, Other Mom & Space mom
Edmond, OK
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I made it to beautiful Traverse City, Michigan, for the book fair! Doors open at 10 AM, and I’m excited to be surrounded by so many amazing authors from across the country! If you’re in the area, come on out, stop by, and say hello. I’d love to meet you!
Want to learn more about my children’s books? Visit rodneysmithjr.com
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On This Day in Supervillain History
Who would suspect that charity fund-raising billionaire and tough-on-crime politician Richard Raleigh is secretly the villainous Disruptor? Certainly no one who planned to vote for him 54 years ago in Spiderman #117.
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Challenge Accepted! Bryce of South Haven , MI has stepped up to make a difference and accepting our 50 yard challenge , committing to mow 50 free yards for those in need in his community. This is what it’s all about. Welcome to the family, Bryce !
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The #DanielDistraction - a daily dose of #DanielJackson for your enjoyment.
#Stargate #SaveStargate #PrometheusUnbound
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Day 148 of reminding @AmazonMGMStudio of their mistake cancelling Martin Gero's Stargate #SaveStargate
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Your children will be very excited to know that the total rainfall sitting in our gauge this morning was 0.67 inches.
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On This Day in Supervillain History
Former communist spy, top scientist, and descendant of Arthurian legend Nathan Garrett drew inspiration from his lineage to mutate a horse and embark on a criminal career as the Black Knight. He debuted 63 years ago in Tales to Astonish #52.
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Day 147 of reminding @AmazonMGMStudio of their mistake cancelling Martin Gero's Stargate #SaveStargate
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The #WordOfTheDay is ‘quondam.’
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ALT WORD OF THE DAY Merriam- Webster NOVEMBER 6, 2026 PREVIOUS quondam adjective | KWAHN-dum former or sometime NEXT
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On This Day in Supervillain History
Spider-Woman #23 marked the first appearance of Gamesman, a costumed criminal who was revealed to be none other than ...SPOILER ALERT FOR A 47 YEAR OLD COMIC!...Timothy Braverman, the guy Jessica Drew has fallen in love with after a few dates!
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Will your child be the next to accept The 50 Yard Challenge? Summer may be winding down and school may be starting again soon, but the opportunity to serve never ends. The 50 Yard Challenge is open year-round and includes more than mowing lawns. Kids can also rake leaves, shovel snow, and pick up litter while helping the elderly, disabled, single parents, and veterans in their own communities.
As children complete milestones, they earn different colored T-shirts, and once they finish 50 free yards, they receive a brand-new mower, weed eater, and leaf blower. There is no deadline and no need to rush—they can start today and finish next year. What matters most is getting kids active, teaching them the value of service, and showing them that even one small act of kindness can make a lasting difference. Talk to your child today about accepting The 50 Yard Challenge!
Learn more & sign up : bit.ly/50yardsignup
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Guys......that's an F302
Stargate is a documentary literally undefeated
🚨 BREAKING: Introducing X-70 Fractal, @NASA's newest experimental aircraft!
This crewed, modular aircraft will allow the agency to rapidly swap out internal & external payloads to help keep pushing the frontiers of aviation technology! @nasaadmin
Details: go.nasa.gov/4kAeM0d
ALT Generated image of NASA’s new X-70 Fractal experimental aircraft, a crewed, rapidly reconfigurable research platform for advanced aviation technologies.
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Today, I am recommending four essential works by Kir Bulychev, the Soviet master of imaginative, humane and often quietly philosophical science fiction.
The Settlement (1988): Sixteen years after their spaceship crashes into the icy mountains of an uninhabited planet, the survivors send a small party, mostly their own children, across a deadly pass to reach the wreck. It’s a survival epic about a generation that has never seen Earth. Bulychev’s darkest work, and arguably his best. (English translation: Those Who Survive).
Half a Life (1973): An expedition discovers a derelict alien spacecraft and, scattered aboard it, the diary of Nadezhda, a Soviet woman abducted in 1956 and kept for the rest of her life as a living exhibit. A devastating story about endurance and loneliness.
May I Please Speak to Nina? (1973): A man in 1972 Moscow makes a wrong-number call and reaches a thirteen-year-old girl living in wartime Moscow in 1942. All they have between them is a telephone line across thirty years. A tiny masterpiece that has been making Russian readers cry for more than half a century.
Alice’s Travels (1974): Young Alice joins her zoologist father on a voyage to collect rare animals for Moscow’s space zoo, only to stumble into a mystery involving a missing captain and space pirates. Pure joy, and a big part of why Russia loves Bulychev.
Check out the quoted thread for the recommended works of Theodore Sturgeon, Alfred Bester, Bob Shaw, Clifford D. Simak, Algis Budrys, A.E. van Vogt, C.L. Moore, Cordwainer Smith, C.M. Kornbluth, D.G. Compton, Thomas M. Disch, Alice Bradley Sheldon (James Tiptree, Jr.), John Brunner, Judith Merril, Hal Clement, James Blish, Jack Williamson, Katherine MacLean, Fred Saberhagen, Jack Vance, Leigh Brackett, Edgar Pangborn, R.A. Lafferty, William Tenn, Kate Wilhelm, Avram Davidson, James H. Schmitz, Eric Frank Russell, Brian W. Aldiss, Carol Emshwiller, Wilson Tucker, Chad Oliver, Zenna Henderson, Pauline Ashwell, Frederik Pohl, Henry Kuttner, Barrington J. Bayley, James P. Hogan, C.J. Cherryh, Margaret St. Clair, Keith Laumer, Charles L. Harness, Howard Waldrop, Rosel George Brown, Gordon R. Dickson, Robert Sheckley, Fredric Brown, Kit Reed, Joanna Russ, H. Beam Piper, Daniel F. Galouye, Sydney J. Van Scyoc, Tom Godwin, Andre Norton, Harry Harrison, Vonda N. McIntyre, John Christopher, John Wyndham, Michael Bishop, Doris Piserchia, Bob Buckley, George Alec Effinger, Olaf Stapledon, John Varley, Miriam Allen deFord, Raymond F. Jones, Suzette Haden Elgin, Richard Cowper, Bruce Sterling, Josephine Saxton, Mack Reynolds, Phyllis Gotlieb, E.E. “Doc” Smith, Sterling E. Lanier, L. Sprague de Camp, Fritz Leiber, George Turner, Octavia E. Butler, Philip José Farmer, Somtow Sucharitkul, Charles Sheffield, Sonya Dorman, Clark Ashton Smith, Norman Spinrad, Naomi Mitchison, Suzy McKee Charnas, Barry N. Malzberg, Paul Preuss, Lloyd Biggle, Jr., George S. Schuyler, Damon Knight, Nancy Kress, E.C. Tubb, John Sladek, Joan D. Vinge, Ward Moore, Marta Randall, Robert L. Forward, Ian Watson, Brian Stableford, Keith Roberts, David R. Bunch, Michael G. Coney, Frank M. Robinson, Christopher Priest, Vernor Vinge, Lee Hoffman, Wilmar H. Shiras, Lucius Shepard, David I. Masson, Mildred Clingerman, Leigh Kennedy, Ernest Hogan, Jack Womack, Kenneth Bulmer, Mark Clifton, Kage Baker, Murray Leinster, Evelyn E. Smith, Kris Neville, Edmond Hamilton, James White, Wyman Guin, Emil Petaja, John Boyd, Christopher Anvil, Alan E. Nourse, T.J. Bass, Colin Kapp, Edmund Cooper, Rog Phillips, Mark S. Geston, James E. Gunn, Walter Tevis, Maureen F. McHugh, John Crowley, George O. Smith, Cherry Wilder, F.L. Wallace, G.C. Edmondson, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Pamela Sargent, Robert F. Young, Fred Hoyle, Eleanor Arnason, A. Bertram Chandler, Charles Eric Maine, Tanith Lee, Kathleen Ann Goonan, J.T. McIntosh, Philip Wylie, Tom Purdom, Richard McKenna, Donald Wandrei, Nelson S. Bond, William Hope Hodgson, A. Merritt, Raymond Z. Gallun, John Taine, Clare Winger Harris, Stanislaw Lem, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, and Angélica Gorodischer.
Today, I am recommending four essential works by Angélica Gorodischer, the grande dame of Argentine SF.
Kalpa Imperial (1983-84): Storytellers recount thousands of years in a vast, nameless empire, where dynasties rise and fall. The linked tales read like a dreamlike history and a pointed parable about the cycles of power.
Trafalgar (1979): Between business trips, Trafalgar Medrano of Rosario regales his friends with tales of selling goods on strange planets. These linked tales are full of bizarre alien societies, unexpected adventures, and sly social satire.
The Violet’s Embryos (1973): A rescue ship finds the stranded, all-male crew of an earlier expedition living in decadent bliss on Salari II. Violet patches on the ground grant wishes, but only to those capable of becoming what they desire.
Opus dos (1967): After nuclear catastrophe, a new civilization reverses the racial hierarchy. Black people rule, while whites are an oppressed minority. Across nine interlocking stories, Gorodischer explores the cyclical nature of oppression.
Check out the quoted thread for the recommended works of Theodore Sturgeon, Alfred Bester, Bob Shaw, Clifford D. Simak, Algis Budrys, A.E. van Vogt, C.L. Moore, Cordwainer Smith, C.M. Kornbluth, D.G. Compton, Thomas M. Disch, Alice Bradley Sheldon (James Tiptree, Jr.), John Brunner, Judith Merril, Hal Clement, James Blish, Jack Williamson, Katherine MacLean, Fred Saberhagen, Jack Vance, Leigh Brackett, Edgar Pangborn, R.A. Lafferty, William Tenn, Kate Wilhelm, Avram Davidson, James H. Schmitz, Eric Frank Russell, Brian W. Aldiss, Carol Emshwiller, Wilson Tucker, Chad Oliver, Zenna Henderson, Pauline Ashwell, Frederik Pohl, Henry Kuttner, Barrington J. Bayley, James P. Hogan, C.J. Cherryh, Margaret St. Clair, Keith Laumer, Charles L. Harness, Howard Waldrop, Rosel George Brown, Gordon R. Dickson, Robert Sheckley, Fredric Brown, Kit Reed, Joanna Russ, H. Beam Piper, Daniel F. Galouye, Sydney J. Van Scyoc, Tom Godwin, Andre Norton, Harry Harrison, Vonda N. McIntyre, John Christopher, John Wyndham, Michael Bishop, Doris Piserchia, Bob Buckley, George Alec Effinger, Olaf Stapledon, John Varley, Miriam Allen deFord, Raymond F. Jones, Suzette Haden Elgin, Richard Cowper, Bruce Sterling, Josephine Saxton, Mack Reynolds, Phyllis Gotlieb, E.E. “Doc” Smith, Sterling E. Lanier, L. Sprague de Camp, Fritz Leiber, George Turner, Octavia E. Butler, Philip José Farmer, Somtow Sucharitkul, Charles Sheffield, Sonya Dorman, Clark Ashton Smith, Norman Spinrad, Naomi Mitchison, Suzy McKee Charnas, Barry N. Malzberg, Paul Preuss, Lloyd Biggle, Jr., George S. Schuyler, Damon Knight, Nancy Kress, E.C. Tubb, John Sladek, Joan D. Vinge, Ward Moore, Marta Randall, Robert L. Forward, Ian Watson, Brian Stableford, Keith Roberts, David R. Bunch, Michael G. Coney, Frank M. Robinson, Christopher Priest, Vernor Vinge, Lee Hoffman, Wilmar H. Shiras, Lucius Shepard, David I. Masson, Mildred Clingerman, Leigh Kennedy, Ernest Hogan, Jack Womack, Kenneth Bulmer, Mark Clifton, Kage Baker, Murray Leinster, Evelyn E. Smith, Kris Neville, Edmond Hamilton, James White, Wyman Guin, Emil Petaja, John Boyd, Christopher Anvil, Alan E. Nourse, T.J. Bass, Colin Kapp, Edmund Cooper, Rog Phillips, Mark S. Geston, James E. Gunn, Walter Tevis, Maureen F. McHugh, John Crowley, George O. Smith, Cherry Wilder, F.L. Wallace, G.C. Edmondson, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Pamela Sargent, Robert F. Young, Fred Hoyle, Eleanor Arnason, A. Bertram Chandler, Charles Eric Maine, Tanith Lee, Kathleen Ann Goonan, J.T. McIntosh, Philip Wylie, Tom Purdom, Richard McKenna, Donald Wandrei, Nelson S. Bond, William Hope Hodgson, A. Merritt, Raymond Z. Gallun, John Taine, Clare Winger Harris, Stanislaw Lem, and Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.
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It gives me great pride to announce that Grayson of Kalamazoo, MI who is taking part in our 50 yard challenge has submitted the remaining lawn and has officially completed our 50 yard challenge . I’ll be hitting the road soon to deliver him his new equipment .
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Good job, gang! We got Klingons trending!
Second Mission: The Delivery (Part 3.5 - Predator) #Amalgaverse
The cruiser breaks away from the Enterprise and runs for open space, leaving its soldiers behind.
It doesn’t get far. Behind it, space ripples and a Klingon Bird-of-Prey shimmers out of cloak, its wings lowering into attack position. Two torpedoes, two direct hits, and the cruiser is gone, leaving behind a spreading cloud of wreckage.
The Bird-of-Prey comes about, bringing its weapons to bear on the Enterprise. Then it hails.
A Klingon captain appears on the viewscreen, scarred, grey-bearded and entirely at ease.
“This is Captain James T. Kirk, of the U.S.S. Enterprise.”
“I am Captain Kordath, of the warship Vor’nak. You are welcome, Captain. The vermin who attacked your ship will trouble no one again.”
“I don’t recall asking for your help,”says Kirk.
“A Klingon never waits to be asked.”
Then he gets down to business. Harven Zax is wanted by the Klingon Empire for crimes against it, and the Enterprise is in Klingon space. Kordath demands that Zax be handed over to them.
What do you do?
A) Refuse. Zax is under Federation protection, and Kirk has his orders. But the Enterprise has only now come back to life, and a Bird-of-Prey that just destroyed a cruiser may not take no for an answer.
B) Stall. Demand to see the warrant. Bring in Councilor Robespierre to argue jurisdiction and drag out the talks while Scotty brings the ship back to full strength. But Klingon patience runs short, and Robespierre may make things worse.
C) Run. Go to warp and leave the Klingons behind. But it’s a long way out of Klingon space, and a Bird-of-Prey is built for the chase.
Choose!
[END OF ACT THREE]
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