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A Jetplane is NOT a Spaceship: Why A Jetplane NOT a Spaceship, Part I
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A Jetplane is NOT a Spaceship. Fiction and AfroFuturism reviewed by Stafford L. Battle. Diverse Writers and Artists of Speculative Fiction. Saturday, January 3, 2015. Why A Jetplane NOT a Spaceship, Part I. The excitement in science fiction stories is heightened when writers heed the problems of space travel and offer stories using novel solutions for survival outside of Earth’s atmosphere and gravity. Spacecraft do not zoom and swish in the vacuum of space. They don't bank and do barrel rolls. I would b...
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A Jetplane is NOT a Spaceship: October 2014
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A Jetplane is NOT a Spaceship. Fiction and AfroFuturism reviewed by Stafford L. Battle. Diverse Writers and Artists of Speculative Fiction. Friday, October 3, 2014. Book Review: Unexpected Stories by Octavia E. Butler; foreword by Walter Mosley. Walter Mosley tell us, " Unexpected Stories. I am a big fan of Octavia Butler. Some of her works, I consider outstanding. Yet, there are books and stories that I find baffling (maybe as I get older, the messages will become clearer). Series of novels began. A...
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A Jetplane is NOT a Spaceship: August 2014
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A Jetplane is NOT a Spaceship. Fiction and AfroFuturism reviewed by Stafford L. Battle. Diverse Writers and Artists of Speculative Fiction. Friday, August 8, 2014. Why We Need A Static Shock. Inspiration to take on overwhelming challenges comes from many sources. Speculative fiction - which is an umbrella term for any artistic endeavor that presents unlimited possibilities - can be our savior. We can dream big. Writing and producing the animated series Justice League Unlimited. Saturday, August 2, 2014.
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A Jetplane is NOT a Spaceship: March 2014
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A Jetplane is NOT a Spaceship. Fiction and AfroFuturism reviewed by Stafford L. Battle. Diverse Writers and Artists of Speculative Fiction. Tuesday, March 18, 2014. Why Big Solar is Bad. DII) It failed. Lucky for us. Solar energy has been touted by proponents as the next major technological advance to protect the world from pollution and satisfy our hunger for electricity. We have been promised. Especially in the desert - where nothing lives. But the desert thrives with life. Imitate Big Oil. Some i.
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A Jetplane is NOT a Spaceship: Catching up with Ceres
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A Jetplane is NOT a Spaceship. Fiction and AfroFuturism reviewed by Stafford L. Battle. Diverse Writers and Artists of Speculative Fiction. Wednesday, March 4, 2015. Catching up with Ceres. Artist’s impression of DAWN spacecraft close to asteroids. Courtesy: NASA/JPL. NASA's space probe Dawn. Has reached Ceres, the largest object in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. Furthermore, the New Horizons. A fter a voyage of nearly nine years and three billion miles. So, we should not cling to the immedi...
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A Jetplane is NOT a Spaceship: A Letter to my Great, Great, Great Grand Kids
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A Jetplane is NOT a Spaceship. Fiction and AfroFuturism reviewed by Stafford L. Battle. Diverse Writers and Artists of Speculative Fiction. Monday, April 20, 2015. A Letter to my Great, Great, Great Grand Kids. Sometimes, the young take lightly when forced to listen to elders who drift back on the outgoing tide of ancient history; but the ocean flows in both directions. In order to have a more perfect future. Thus, these are some of my observations. Most important, we saw the beginning of the end of glob...
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A Jetplane is NOT a Spaceship: April 2015
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A Jetplane is NOT a Spaceship. Fiction and AfroFuturism reviewed by Stafford L. Battle. Diverse Writers and Artists of Speculative Fiction. Monday, April 20, 2015. A Letter to my Great, Great, Great Grand Kids. Sometimes, the young take lightly when forced to listen to elders who drift back on the outgoing tide of ancient history; but the ocean flows in both directions. In order to have a more perfect future. Thus, these are some of my observations. Most important, we saw the beginning of the end of glob...
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A Jetplane is NOT a Spaceship: December 2013
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A Jetplane is NOT a Spaceship. Fiction and AfroFuturism reviewed by Stafford L. Battle. Diverse Writers and Artists of Speculative Fiction. Sunday, December 29, 2013. Utopian and Dystopian Fiction in the African Diasporia. Hanna-Barbera crew who created this cartoon predicting the future. The Jetson's world was presented as a utopia for American style Western Capitalism. But first, let's steal some common text from Wikipedia:. And its offshoot, the dystopia. Are genres of literature. Many novels combine ...
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A Jetplane is NOT a Spaceship: Why A Jetplane Is Not A Spaceship, Part II
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A Jetplane is NOT a Spaceship. Fiction and AfroFuturism reviewed by Stafford L. Battle. Diverse Writers and Artists of Speculative Fiction. Friday, January 23, 2015. Why A Jetplane Is Not A Spaceship, Part II. Comparison of the nuclear powered Daedalus spacecraft and Saturn V Moon rocket. Designing a spaceship requires thinking differently. Spaceships that carried humans into space were huge mechanical monsters that required the resources of a major superpower. Space agencies relied upon chemical roc...
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A Jetplane is NOT a Spaceship: June 2015
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A Jetplane is NOT a Spaceship. Fiction and AfroFuturism reviewed by Stafford L. Battle. Diverse Writers and Artists of Speculative Fiction. Thursday, June 4, 2015. Stafford L. Battle. 8220;If you don’t wrap it just right, it will fall off.”. That always worried my younger brother. He would grimace as we trudged along the rocky, muddy path towards the river. Earthworms were expensive, almost a half penny each. We had to rob our joint piggy bank to ensure the success of every fishing expedition. 8220;You f...