LINKS

Science Fiction (General)

• Astounding Stories of Super-Science (1930s sci-fi magazine on Project Gutenberg: Download in multiple formats for free)
• Futuria Fantasi (Ray Bradburry edits, free downloads, Project Gutenberg)
• Astounding Stories

Karel Čapek's R.U.R.

• Online PDF of play

Watchmen

• Ozymandius image

1984 and Orwell

• Current 1984 links
• "Big Brother Is Watching You" Poster
• Songs inspired by 1984
  • "Sex Crimes 1984"--Eurythmics
  • "1984"--David Bowie
  • "Big Brother"--David Bowie
• Riddley Scott's Apple Ad from 1984
• Film Clips:
  • The Two-minute Hate
  • O'Brien's Torture of Winston Smith
  • The Rat Scene
• The Newspeak Dictionary (actual dictionary, film clips, and modern versions of Orwell's concepts about language, politics, and thought control.

"'All You Zombies--,'" Starship Troopers, and Robert A Heinlein

• "I'm My Own Grandpaw" lyrics and family tree graphic (with audio file)
• The Heinlein Society (Official web site)
• A slightly biased review of Heinlein's Take Back Your Government

"At the Rialto" by Connie Willis: audio track plus full text.

Blade Runner, Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep, Ridley Scott, and Philip K. Dick

• IMDB entry on Blade Runner
• Philip K. Dick Official Site
• IMDB Entry on Ridley Scott
• "Q&A: Ridley Scott Has Finally Created the Blade Runner He Always Imagined"--Wired

"Second Variety" -- Philip K. Dick (Other stories by Philip K. Dick)

"When I Was Miss Dow"--by Sonya Dorman

"Bloodchild" by Octavia E. Butler

• Interview on Charlie Rose with Butler.

"Mars is Heaven!" by Ray Bradburry

"The Star"

• Rubens' engraving of Loyola
• NASA on White Dwarfs