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Author of prose & audio science fiction, both original (including the Arachne/Troubleshooter prose series & Tangent Knights audiobook trilogy) and tie-in (Star Trek and Marvel Comics).
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How appropriate...
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If you ever get to reboot it and do it right, I call dibs on the tie-in novels.
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The one in red looks like a wizard from some anthropomorphic-animal fantasy movie.
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People always believe the past's entertainment was better, but it's an illusion resulting from the fact that the better stuff is proportionally better remembered and preserved over time relative to the trashy stuff.
I find there's far more intelligent SF onscreen today than in my youth.
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Every authoritarian who successfully destroyed judicial independence did so because civil society failed to unite in time. The key difference? Whether people mobilized.
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Compelling SF films and shoot-em-up space operas have always coexisted; it's not a generational difference. In the '30s, there were numerous sci-fi serials like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers.
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Intrepid was NCC-07, and I intended Buran to be 08 and Shenlong 09. From my website notes: "Presumably Apollo and Soyuz would be 10 and 11 (probably but not certainly in that order), Ares and Charybdis would be 12 and 13 (same caveat), and Phoenix and Valiant would be 14 and 15 (same caveat)."
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Sad news. First Margaret, now Peter. So sorry for you and all who were close to him. I didn't know him that well, but he's been a presence in my life one way or another for so long, from his comics & books I've read from the '80s onward to seeing him routinely at Shore Leave. It's a great loss.
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I think recent events demonstrate that the Turing Test is not a measure of computers' intelligence so much as a measure of humans' gullibility.
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The problem is that calling it "AI" is false advertising. It's a large language model. It uses statistics to generate grammatically valid text with no comprehension of whether it's factually valid. It is not a source of information by any means, and promoting it as such is straight-up fraud.
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I wrote five of them. Well, it wasn't NX-01, but it was the same class as the refit. christopherlbennett.wordpress.com/home-page/st...
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I love it that our galaxy is a jaunty fedora.
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Oh yes, that's right, I did. I wanted to name multiple ships in this book after prominent female scientists or explorers, to try to balance out the male bias of TOS ship names.
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Sorry to hear that. I hope you get another series soon.
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However, I think they only have the English-dubbed versions available in at least some cases.
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If you're in the US, every single Gamera film is available for free with ads on Tubi, including different versions and the MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 riffs:
tubitv.com/search/gamera
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Except it was originally in black-and-white.