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Yesterday #LAconV made its program public. Last night, I dreamed I was at #Worldcon. Sat down for a chat with Bill Roper. Then realized I didn't know my panel schedule, so I needed to go back to my room to find my badge. The hotel was large and confusing, lots of ballrooms, wrong turns. 1/n

That is one heck of a lot of #Worldcon programming. I would happily sit for an hour listening to the people who put the #LAconV program together discuss how they did it! But that hypothetical panel won't happen, at least not DURING the Worldcon they'll be running…

Published in 1975, offering a remarkably shrewd vision of a society pervaded by networked computers, SHOCKWAVE RIDER is an important #ScienceFiction book. Here's something you might not have known about John Brunner's novel: Its editors merged two characters into one. Algis Budrys tells the tale.

Soon to hit the Moon: A Falcoon, Launched by that tycoon, You know—Eloon. Will the ejecta plume from the coming Falcon 9 upper stage impact, on 5 August, be visible to telescopes on Earth? Read this. And stay tuned! 🚀+🌛=💥! 🔭🧪 #PlanSci

Nothing, except perhaps the landing of a flying saucer in one’s backyard, is quite so disruptive of everyday life as the discovery of sunken treasure. There are very few people in the world who can confirm this, but by a series of most unlikely events, I happen to be among them. — #ArthurCClarke

Today was the first time I saw someone refer to “the Big Beautiful Obituary.”