Pseudopod 398: Prince Of Flowers
by Elizabeth Hand.
“Prince of Flowers” was Hand’s first published story. It appeared in Twilight Zone Magazine in 1988, was subsequently reprinted in The Year’s Best Horror and has appeared in various anthologies since then, as well as in her story collection LAST SUMMER AT MARS HILL. “Much of the story is drawn from my own experiences working at theSmithsonian Institution in the 1970s-1980s. I was at the National Air & Space Museum, not the National History Museum, but spent as much time in the latter as I could. In those days, a Smithsonian ID badge allowed you to access all areas — not any more, alas.”
ELIZABETH HAND is the author of numerous award-winning novels and collections of short fiction, as well as a longtime reviewer and critic whose work has appeared in theWashington Post, Los Angeles Times, Salon, and many other publications.
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Comics: “The Midas Flesh”
Let me tell you many things about an excellent comic book miniseries called: “The Midas Flesh”
1) It is a completed 8-issue comic book with a weird title.
2) It is about a universe where the story of King Midas is real (Everything he touches turns to gold, and everything that is touching what he’s touching), and then his dead body is exploited as a planet-killing super-weapon by both rebel forces and the authoritarian government in a galaxy-spanning conflict.
3) It is a fascinating physics/engineering thought-experiment about all the different implications and effects of Midas’s power.
4) It is a thoughtful exploration of the ethics of weapons of mass destruction.
5) It has a talking, nerdy, feathered velociraptor who wears a tie and glasses. He is the ship’s engineer, and one of the three primary characters.
6) The nerdy dinosaur has a tragic backstory.
7) The character roster on both sides of the conflict is diverse in race, gender, and species.
8) It has dialogue like: “Aw man, turns out I hate getting lied to by machines created by long-dead jerks!”
9) The story keeps raising the stakes without losing sight of the characters.
10) It has lots of cool spaceship action.
11) I LOVED this comic!
12) Find out more about it at midasflesh.com
W100M – 52 – Taxi Driver — 51 – West Side Story
Christiana and Mike watch movies number 52 and 51 of the AFI’s Top 100 Movies
Space Casey Season 2 Episode 10 – Finale!
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Space Casey Season 2 Episode 09
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Space Casey Season 2 Episode 08
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W100M – 54 – MASH — 53 – The Deer Hunter
Christiana and Mike watch movies number 54 and 53 of the AFI’s Top 100 Movies
Space Casey Season 2 Episode 07
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Space Casey Season 2 Episode 06
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Space Casey Season 2 Episode 05
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