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My rule of thumb: If any ideology requires that the fundamental nature of man be changed for its political aims to be workable, run away like a flaming pig.
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Alexander G. Rubio retweeted
Putin has spoken on the topic of Russian personnel losses in Russian television interviews. He has said that Russia could advance much faster but that the slower pace is designed to reduce human losses and that this is important. He has also said that Ukrainian losses are five for every Russian and observed that it seems to him that the Ukrainian leadership cares nothing for its people. Whether one thinks he is telling the truth probably depends upon one's perspective. For myself, I note that what he says aligns very well with body exchange ratios. While one must approach the latter with caution, it would seem to be a valid yardstick, especially this year when Russian advances have slowed greatly and Ukrainian counter-offensives have recovered more ground. If one uses the body exchange ratios as a measure, Ukrainian losses vastly exceed Russian losses. I note also three additional factors that tend to support this thesis. A. The Ukrainians in the zone of combat have repeatedly noted the utterly devastating effects of Russian glide bombs, which are dropped at the rate 250 to 300 a day. The Ukrainians have no effective defence or answer to these. B. Zelensky claimed in recent months that Ukrainian KIA across the entire war is only 55k: It's a blatantly obvious lie and the lie on one side of the equation makes obvious the lie on the other side of the equation, viz. exaggerated claims of Russian losses. C. The Ukrainian brutal busification conscription methodology has become necessary for quite obvious reasons: the willing volunteers of earlier in the war are effectively all gone now. Zelensky himself is on record as saying that all the best people have long since been lost. Russia by contrast still relies on volunteer contract soldiers.
Alexander G. Rubio retweeted
The foremost quality of great men is the ability to see when the system is rigged against you, and the courage to break the rules of that system when that moment comes. Flávio Bolsonaro didn't lose. His father did when the moment came, not for lack of physical, but moral courage.
Alexander G. Rubio retweeted
I was walking through Cologne’s City Museum when I saw this half-armor most likely worn by Jan von Werth (around 1640).
And so I learned another Thirty Years’ War story — and a famous Cologne legend.
There was a farmer’s son working in Cologne, who falls in love with the maid Griet and proposes.
But she rejects him because he is not wealthy enough — she wants a proper farmer with oxen, cows, and horses.
Heartbroken, he signs up as a mercenary in the Thirty Years’ War. Four of his five brothers died in this war.
But Jan, through skill, courage, and a bit of luck, rises to general, wins fame and fortune, and is ennobled.
Later he returns to Cologne in triumph, riding through the city gates with his troops. There he sees Griet still selling fruit at a market stall.
He greets her with the line (in the Cologne dialect of course): “Griet, if only you had done it!”
She replies regretfully: “Jan, if only I had known!”
He rides on.
The phrases exchanged between Jan and Griet are apparently still used in Cologne for a missed chance.
The story is pure legend.
But Jan’s rise from peasant’s son to general is real.
Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III rewarded Jan von Werth for his military service with an estate in today’s Czech Republic (Benátky nad Jizerou Castle near Prague), where he lived his last years and is buried in the crypt under the castle church.
Alexander G. Rubio retweeted
👑🇩🇪🇦🇹Gothic Harness of Maximilian I (1459-1519) made in Augsburg by Lorenz Helmschmid ca. 1485
This harness is a highpoint of late Gothic German armour production. It perfectly reflects the contemporary aesthetic ideal in male fashion in steel north of the Alps.
The wearer appears slim and light, and the armour’s surface is rhythmized with radial flutings. Some of the edges and lames are embellished with decorative gilt brass strips, while others are pierced to create geometric or lily-shaped patterns.
The sabatons are elongated and tapered, reflecting contemporary elite shoe fashion.
The armour was produced around 1484 in the workshop of Lorenz Helmschmid at Augsburg. Lorenz was one of the greatest armourers of all time, founding a dynasty of master-craftsmen which, under his son Kolman and his grandson Desiderius, continued until the mid-sixteenth century to produce armour of the highest quality.
From the 1470s onwards, the Helmschmid family worked mainly for the Habsburgs, from Emperor Frederick III to King Philip II of Spain.
This armour comes from the Armoury of Heroes assembled by Archduke Ferdinand II at Ambras Castle near Innsbruck. However, in the Armamentarium Heroicum, the catalogue of the collection published in 1601–03, it was listed and illustrated as armour made for Archduke Sigismund.
Despite some doubts, this attribution was accepted until the early twenty-first century, when the young Emperor Maximilian I was finally identified as the probable original owner of this spectacular armour.
One reason for attributing it to Maximilian was his age at the time it was made. Only a slim, young man could have worn such a figure-hugging harness; at the time, Maximilian was 25 but Sigismund was almost 60.
We also have no record of Sigismund ordering armour from Lorenz Helmschmid, unlike Maximilian who, starting around 1480, commissioned numerous works from him. In 1491, Maximilian installed Lorenz as his court armourer.
Height: 182 cm Weight: 21.25 kg (46 lbs 11 oz)
Alexander G. Rubio retweeted
New Video out now!
The Metaphysics of War. We will talk about the Ukraine-War, mobilization and the metaphysics behind War. This one is gonna be blast!
youtube.com/watch?v=thyH9H11…
How did MeToo become a movement? Partly because most men readily accepted the argument, "Why would anyone lie about being raped?" That sounds convincing to a man, because almost no man would, as being raped violates your very identity as a man. That isn't the case for women.
Former MIT scientist David Sabatini just won $6 million in a landmark case against false allegations of r*pe and sexual assault, which destroyed his career.
Once on track to win the Nobel Prize, Sabatini’s ex-girlfriend accused him of r*pe in 2020 and began calling him the ‘Weinstein of science.’ He was later accused of perpetuating a “bro culture” in his lab. As a result, he was stripped of all his funding, lost his job, and went bankrupt.
We interviewed Sabatini (@DMSabatini) about the verdict, which he says made him “proud to be an American.”
@neerajadeshp reports 👇
Alexander G. Rubio retweeted
Today, I am recommending four essential works by William Hope Hodgson, the sailor-turned-writer whose cosmic horror anticipated Lovecraft.
The Night Land (1912): Millions of years from now, with the sun long dead, the last of humanity huddles in a vast metal pyramid surrounded by monstrous forces, and one man ventures out across the darkness to find his lost love. A staggering, one-of-a-kind vision of the far future, worth pursuing through its archaic prose.
The House on the Borderland (1908): A recluse in a remote Irish house fends off swine-like creatures emerging from a pit, then is swept on a journey through time and space to witness the death of the solar system. A feverish cosmic nightmare that Lovecraft later championed.
The Voice in the Night (1907): Stranded without wind on a starless night in the North Pacific, two sailors are hailed by a voice from a small boat that begs for food but refuses to come into the light. A short, devastating masterpiece of creeping dead.
The Derelict (1912): An old ship’s rotor recalls the day his crew boarded an abandoned hulk smothered in a strange, spreading growth. A chilling sea tale that grounds its horror in biology rather than the supernatural.
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 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, Bertram A. Chandler, Charles Eric Maine, Tanith Lee, Kathleen Ann Goonan, J.T. McIntosh, Philip Wylie, Tom Purdom, Richard McKenna, Donald Wandrei, and Nelson S. Bond.
Today, I am recommending four essential works by Nelson S. Bond, the pulp-era storyteller and SFWA Author Emeritus whose wit and warmth lit up the Golden Age.
The Remarkable Exploits of Lancelot Biggs, Spaceman (1950): A collection of comic tales about a gangly, unlikely space-freighter officer whose screwball science gets his ship out of every jam. Breezy, inventive fun that proves Golden Age SF could be genuinely funny.
The Priestess Who Rebelled (1939): In a ruined future ruled by women, young Meg undertakes a sacred pilgrimage to the fabled Place of the Gods, where she discovers a startling truth about humanity’s past. A memorable post-apocalyptic tale with an unforgettable heroine and a clever reversal of gender roles.
Exiles of Time (1949): A mysterious bloodstone amulet transports archaeologist Lance Vidor from an ancient Arabian tomb to the lost continent of My, where he joins others summoned across the centuries to save Earth from a catastrophic comet. Norse myth retold as pulp adventure, like Ragnarok on a countdown clock.
No Time Like the Future (1954): Bond’s most science-fictional collection, gathering his sharpest short work, including Conqueror’s Isle and The Cunning of the Beast. A showcase of his gift for the twist ending, from sly comedy to genuinely unsettling.
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 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, Bertram A. Chandler, Charles Eric Maine, Tanith Lee, Kathleen Ann Goonan, J.T. McIntosh, Philip Wylie, Tom Purdom, Richard McKenna, and Donald Wandrei.
Alexander G. Rubio retweeted
Microsoft is offering "voluntary" severance to 60,000 employees, to be replaced by AI both as labour and investment. What are the social ramifications of widespread automation of white collar workers? Being above being replaced by a machine was a core part of their personality.
Alexander G. Rubio retweeted
Ukrainian media reports that Putin has offered to forgo military seizure of the remaining Ukrainian-held Donbas in exchange for NATO withdrawing its forces from countries bordering Russia - specifically Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
This comes from today.ua (27 Oct), which says the offer is one of three compromise packages that Russia has supposedly transmitted to Kyiv. It closely tracks recent reporting (Telegraph, 25–26 Oct, citing diplomatic sources) that, during Witkoff’s 21 Oct meeting with Putin in St Petersburg, Moscow signalled it would press for a rollback of NATO’s military footprint in Europe to 1997 levels in any wider security talks. That would mean precisely the withdrawal of allied forces from the same eastern-flank states.
European and Ukrainian officials have said they are open to discussing the broader post-war European security architecture at the expected early-November trilateral technical talks in Abu Dhabi, but have rejected any such force reductions as a non-starter.
Intriguingly, the proposal reframes the core territorial dispute as a European security bargain. It effectively tests whether Western partners would trade the deterrence posture of NATO’s eastern presence for a freeze on further Russian advances in Donbas.
The same Ukrainian report lists two other options:
Option A: Russia withdraws from its “buffer zone” in Sumy and Kharkiv regions plus parts of Zaporizhzhia and accepts a demilitarised zone along the Dnieper, in exchange for the rest of Donbas.
Option C: Russia forgoes the rest of Donbas if Ukraine ends legal restrictions on the Russian Orthodox Church and Russian language, adopts permanent non-aligned status with international neutrality guarantees (explicitly no NATO), and accepts mandatory demilitarisation.
None of the proposals appears to speak in any way to Ukrainian desires for a security guarantee, although it should be noted that under the Istanbul draft such security guarantee was at least in principle - although far from fully resolved - present and closely related to the neutrality guarantee.
The foremost quality of great men is the ability to see when the system is rigged against you, and the courage to break the rules of that system when that moment comes. Flávio Bolsonaro didn't lose. His father did when the moment came, not for lack of physical, but moral courage.
Microsoft is offering "voluntary" severance to 60,000 employees, to be replaced by AI both as labour and investment. What are the social ramifications of widespread automation of white collar workers? Being above being replaced by a machine was a core part of their personality.
Accepting their argument, for a moment, that the missile program was in fact a "political statement", rather than a weapon of war, it was still doomed the moment they dubbed it the Flamingo. That's like calling your super duper intimidating main battle tank "The Pussy".
Which is, in your opinion, the quintessential Dracula film, not necessarily the best, or most historically important. I'd argue Coppola's "Bram Stoker's Dracula". It's melodramatic and overwrought. But it hits women the hardest. And the vampire is a myth meant for women.
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Alexander G. Rubio retweeted
It's not the acts themselves that are reminiscent of the decadence of Rome, but the shamelessness of them. Contrary to common conceptions, hypocrisy is a sign of a healthy society, not a sick one. It demonstrates that there are still norms and the social will to enforce them.
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Alexander G. Rubio retweeted
Today, I am recommending four essential works by Donald Wandrei, who co-founded Arkham House with August Derleth to preserve H.P. Lovecraft’s work and wrote SF on a vast, cosmic scale.
The Red Brain (1927): As cosmic dust smothers the universe, the last surviving minds, sheltering on the giant star Antares, struggle to find a way to stave off extinction. Wandrei’s chilling vision of the end of everything culminates in a uniquely disturbing twist.
Colossus (1934): When an astronomer discovers that the universe is smaller than anyone believed, the pilot of Earth’s first interstellar ship sets out of find its edge. It’s mind-bending, scale-shifting SF that puts the very nature of existence into perspective.
A Race Through Time (1933): Two rial scientists, one aboard and atomic-powered craft and the other relying on drugs that suspect aging, race toward the Earth of a million from now, with the woman they love at stake. Pulpy, audacious, and Wandrei at his most epic.
The Web is Easter Island (1948): A strange green statuette linked to a trail of deaths draws an archeologist into a nightmare that leads from Stonehenge to Easter Island and far beyond our own age. It’s a strange, ambitious novel that blends weird horror with speculative science.
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 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, Bertram A. Chandler, Charles Eric Maine, Tanith Lee, Kathleen Ann Goonan, J.T. McIntosh, Philip Wylie, Tom Purdom, and Richard McKenna.
Today, I am recommending four essential works by Richard McKenna, a 22-year Navy veteran best known for The Sand Pebbles, who also wrote a handful of quietly brilliant SF stories about the mind’s power to reshape reality.
Casey Agonistes (1958): In a tuberculosis ward, dying men conjure an invisible mischievous ape as their defiance against despair. It’s a funny and heartbreaking short story.
Hunter, Come Home (1963): An alien world’s ecosystem resists colonization, and a young man must choose between his culture’s code of conquest and the planet’s strange, interconnected life This novelette is early ecological SF.
"The Secret Place” (1966): A wartime geologist hunting uranium in the Oregon desert finds the key in a lonely young woman’s childhood fantasy of a hidden world. This short story won the Nebula Award posthumously.
Fiddler’s Green (1967): Castaways adrift and starving in an open boat imagine a better place so intensely that reality begins to bend in this haunting novella.
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 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, Bertram A. Chandler, Charles Eric Maine, Tanith Lee, Kathleen Ann Goonan, J.T. McIntosh, Philip Wylie, and Tom Purdom.
