recordbrother found some rare audio-files by Arthur C. Clarke: -transit_of_earth.mp3
-the_star.mp3
-9_billion_names_of_god.mp3

Michelle has a blog too!

And a weblog called "The Boy Who Heard Music"

Directories and analysis of Islam in sf literature, film, alternate history -- as well as sf by Muslims and original works of Islam-themed science fiction.

The British Library just added "Alice in Wonderland" and 13 other rare manuscripts to the 'Turning the Pages' collection. Other works include the Diamond Sutra and the Leonardo Notebook."

Browse here..

Spaceship Radio is a podcast featuring vintage science fiction radio plays written by such writers as Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein and Frederic Brown.

It's small, but it's the first of it's kind! Open on weekends from noon to 6 p.m. on Solmsstr. 30, just around the corner of that bookstore.

Kim Stanley Robinson has a brilliant interview with the Guardian today about his new eco-disaster novel, 50 Degrees Below, the sequel to his chilling, gripping 40 Signs of Rain. The interview focuses on the eco-disaster in the offing in the USA, and what Robinson's fictional debates about environmental management and re-shaping on Mars and Earth have taught him about disasters like Katrina.

"It seems so easy on Mars, and looks so hard on earth, which is kind of ironic," Robinson agrees. "It's infinitely more difficult when there's already an established ecology. There's no room for error. And also, alas, there are some mistakes that we simply don't have the power to correct."

Such as?

"Reducing the acidity of the ocean. That's a problem I've become more aware of since I finished book two - it will definitely feature in the third volume. Much of the carbon dioxide we're putting into the atmosphere actually ends up in the ocean, increasing its acidity and making it harder for the little creatures to live. They represent the bottom of the food chain and we're at the top of it. Scientists have looked at whether we could de-acidify the oceans after the fact, and the answer is flatly no ...

"But there are things we can do. The kind of terraforming projects we may well have to contemplate in the future are huge, but they're not outside civilisation's industrial ability."

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Perlentaucher, German for "pearl diver," has long been one of the best-kept secrets of the German Internet. Each day, its editors cull the pages of the feuilleton sections of the country's top newspapers and present the best of the lot. What the heck is a feuilleton page, you might be asking? Imagine a philosopher like Jacques Derrida hijacking the Washington Post "Style" pages and you'd get a pretty clear idea -- you get everything from musings and rants on the Iraq war to meditations on this season's Prada. At times insightful and entertaining, at others simply pretentious and impenetrable, the feuilleton pages play an important part of the national dialog here. Since its inception, Perlentaucher has done a great job of filtering the best of the German feuilleton into small, well-written truffles. This week, Perlentaucher launched Sign and Sight, the latest entrant in the growing English-language media in Germany and the first continental European companion to Arts & Letters Daily, a Web site American intellectuals have long known and loved. The site includes Perlentaucher's respected daily press review along with translations of a handful of editorials from major German media.

-found over at spiegel international

"There are historical reasons for the lively culture of debate in the German feuilletons. After World War II, the allies issued newspaper licences to Germans with more or less clean records. "Teach the Germans democracy," they said, "but for God's sake, don't let them express themselves: the breeding ground is still fertile." To this day, political editors have been only too happy to oblige. They have kept a close eye on their commentary pages, allowing only authorised in-house editors to have a say. This has turned the political pages into a sterile preceptory where the same people voice off time and again, leaving the chaos of the world and the miseries and joys of discourse to the feuilletons." -from Sign and Sight - The Manifesto by Thierry Chervel :

The hottest fashion-fanzine in the world is Dong Mag from Berlin. What's that song in the video called, kids?

"The finest radio drama of the 1930’s was The Mercury Theatre on the Air, a show featuring the acclaimed New York drama company founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman. In its brief run, it featured an impressive array of talents, including Agnes Moorehead, Bernard Herrmann, and George Coulouris. The show is famous for its notorious War of the Worlds broadcast, but the other shows in the series are relatively unknown. This site has many of the surviving shows, and will eventually have all of them.

The show first broadcast on CBS and CBC in July 1938. It ran without a sponsor until December of that year, when it was picked up by Campbell’s Soup and renamed The Campbell Playhouse. All of the surviving Mercury Theatre shows are available from this page in RealAudio format (some are also in MP3 format).. There are several Campbell Playhouse episodes available here as well, in both RealAudio and MP3 formats; the rest are being added gradually."

These guys from Berlin want to let you know they want to start "a monthly free ezine (german/english) with global art and activism news (still looking for new scouts in Canada, USA, Asia, Africa and other countries - would be great to have one or two sources that could feed us with fresh news at the end of the month). For the first issue we'll have also an interview with Kalle Lasn and and and"

Often billed as the worst movie ever made, and not entirely undeserving of the title, this is a masterpiece of Ed Wood's making. Download your copy here!

archive.org has hundreds of feature films, music and other things up there. Mostly classic stuff like Hemp for Victory (1942) or Killers From Space (1954) for example. Also get that classic flick Reefer Madness, "THE archetypal sensationalized anti-drug movie"

There is a gremlin living in the bookshop. it eats all electronic devices at night!

" C. S. Lewis' 'Narnia' books and moral fantasy in general." Yep, be there in time and reserve your seats! ->Into the Wardrobe : a C. S. Lewis web site

->Narnia Fans go here...

->The wallpapers that Alex has on his computer at home...

Early September at the Volksbühne, Sean says! Check their multi-lingual website! They rock! Watch the trailer "A luta em Cartaz" filed under TV Uzyna in the video-section.

Look, it's Sister Chain,"queen of darkness". Sister Swamp is hiding in the shadows. I think, they want you to go to their website.

Performances, music, spoken word, poetry, open stage and all that in English with your host lady Gaby. Every 2nd sunday of the month, 9 p. m., Hotelbar, Zionskirchstr. 5, Mitte, berlin. Free entrance!

Here is a really nice collection of covers from Covers of American pulp magazine 'Weird Tales'(1923 till 1943)

Zitty had a little 'story' about Alan in their last issue which you can find here!