LATEST ADDITIONS

Taylor Dinerman offers an appreciation of Heinlein on the occasion of his centenary. Of course, he conveniently skips over that embarrassing incest novel <I>Time Enough for Love</I>, but I've always marveled that that one raised eyebrows at all. After all, the heroes of <A HREF="http://ieng9.ucsd.edu/~mfedder/zombies.html">"All You Zombies"</A> (considered by some to be the best time travel story ever&mdash;although I confess to being thoroughly creeped out by it) and <A HREF="http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/scifi/byhisbootstraps.pdf">"By His Bootstraps"</A> go considerably further than traveling back in time to seduce their mothers.

He's accurate.

Wagner's 29-year-old great-granddaughter debuts her production of <I>Die Meistersinger</I> tonight. It's part of a multi-generational saga that rivals the Ring cycle for drama.

On the disappearing great operatic diva.

I love Tothian: He "doesn't wear a mask because it blocks his peripheral vision, and says he doesn't wear a cape 'because capes get in the way of actually doing real superhero stuff.'"

Me, I'm lucky&mdash;I work with a great editor and an even better copy editor. It's win-win.

<i><b>Let's Play the Caption Game!</i></b>

Arthur Mole and John Thomas arranged thousands of soldiers, reservists, and nurses into various patriotic symbols and photographed them from above&mdash;a description which, while being accurate, doesn't prepare you for their work.

There's a new biography of Leo Szilard, the physicist who proposed the Strangelovian "doomsday weapon."