Cool Links

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How people try to scam you by convincing you to give them all your money.
FBI Investigates Citizens Not Alleged to be Terrorists

Every home page has to have a list of cool links. Want to read science fiction stories on line? Check out Fictionwise, or scifiction.

Ready to apply to college? Try Evil Science University. Read the Darwin Awards. And then check out Urban Legends and more urban legends and yet more urban legends and bad science urban legends

Religious? Check out In Praise of the Devil.

Interested in science fiction that's scientifically accurate? Check out the Resource Guide for Teaching Astronomy through Science Fiction, an annotated index to science fiction stories and novels that use good astronomy, available on the education web pages of the nonprofit Astronomical Society of the Pacific, with categories from anti-matter to Venus, plus exploding stars, the future exploration of Mars, falling into a black hole, the search for intelligent life in the universe (and what forms it might take), and what it would be like to live among the rings and moons of the outer solar system. Or, if accuracy in science fiction isn't what you like, look up some science fiction featuring Bad astronomyor with Bad physics.

My favorite web site is, of course, Dilbert. And Mother Goose & Grimm ain't bad, either. Shoe is another good one, and Dr. Fun often is, and I will even admit to often liking Foxtrot. For a cyber-age comic, though, I suggest you jump to ARGON ZARK! The virtual comic book.

Of course, you've already visited some of the other web pages I've written, and my NASA home page. Some lyrics of mine can be found in Astrid Julian's story "Blowup."

• Mars Pathfinder, one of the projects I work on.
• Cajun Sushi Hamsters from Hell (the Cleveland SF Writers' workshop)
• Pigs in CyberSpace

You can find a list of cool science-related sites at Bill Beaty's Insanely Cool Science Sites, on Winchell Chung's page, and on Erik Max Francis' site.

• Chuck Rothman remembers Einstein and his grandfather
• Attend a Nobel Prize ceremony with David Merman. Learn cat terminology from Obliquity.com's "cats" page.
• If you want to see neat pictures of the universe, look at the best pictures from the Hubble space telescope
• Want to find out about extra-solar planets? Distant Suns
• See our own solar system at Views of the Solar system
• If you're interested in a moonbase, some of my friends are working on a project called Artemis
• Prefer to peruse earlier plans to expand into space? David Portree's Romance to Reality
• Learn about spaceflight by reading Atomic Rockets of the Space Patrol
• But if you build one, better learn first!
  • and if you build robots, learn Geoffrey's laws
• Or if you want to be involved in space activism, take a look at the National Space Society
• If you want to feast your eyes on real space instead of cyberspace, find out what satellites you can see tonight.
• If you are interested in SF writing, I have a page of writing-related links.
• Let me recommend the SciFi Arizona homepage, a page with a link to essays about the science in science fiction.
• And let Steve Martin tell you writing is easy!

More interesting stuff:

• News of the Weird
• Urban Legends
• the Why files
• Science Jokes
• Engineering jokes
• Annals of Improbable Research
• how to light a charcoal grill with liquid oxygen.

Some publishers that feature single-author short story collections:

• Golden Gryphon Press
• Wildside Press

Write your own web pages? Then don't do this:

• Bad Examples
• Web pages that suck

  Kill spam now.

And, everybody on the web should be concerned with internet privacy. Read Lenny Foner's essay about civil liberties in cyberspace (with copious links) to understand the issues.

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