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I remind the readers that there's an alien species called Bonkalubs, who work for the Introductories; but the Congregation will never employ them. Bonkalubs have a roundish lump of a body, from which the head and limbs extend forward. In silhouette, their appearance is like a snail. They aren't...

OKAY, ENOUGH OTHER ACTION HAS PASSED SO WE CAN PICK UP HEYHO AGAIN. Charlotte, I mean _Carolyn_ Fallacy, was established on Planet Stretch system; more of her laboratory space was below ground than above. One of her aides, a biochemist, her first assistant to be not at all humanoid, was a male...

The original access shaft into Bazookadar had adequate protection at the surface end; besides, all of the inner world being permanently warm in climate meant that an arctic exit point would be unappealing to the Wingdingers (even if they weren't afraid of damaging their wings when climbing up a...

One thing it CANNOT have been would be: "Y'know what, Edmund? I am actually the Biblical Jesus Christ, assuming a different form in the Narnian world. My death here was just an extension of My death on the Cross." This would have been TRUE; but if Aslan HAD said it in "Lion/Witch/Wardrobe,"...

Boone and Zoot joined Ace Basey's force on board a ground-effect overland hovercraft, heading for Freesoil's non-oceanic arctic zone where the descent shaft had been dug. On the way, Ace told the local leaders various news from Federal Earth, and they naturally filled him in on the latest...

On the planet known externally as Freesoil but internally as Bazookadar, Brigadier Earl Pufferton, from the Unified Services of the Human Federation, had recovered from the effects of psionic tampering. This had befallen him when he was mentally probing inside the hollow planet and got...

=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_= Saint Kung-Sar Free Church in south-central Tablanor, and its pastor Silas Larkburg, remained in high repute since the war against Jaheg-Jorod's liches, ghouls or whatcha-callem. Retired sea captain George Rothermill who had been helpful to Sir Ronald, and Sheriff Ramseth...

For Silver Chair: You may remember how Lewis wrote that Experiment House had boring books. How about this? Movie opens with exterior view of the school, then moves indoors. Eustace and Jill are unhappily reading their dreary textbooks. There's a series of closeups of pictures on the pages...

Punksteema's moon had recently completed a pass over the land of Hukshem. It was now known to be inhabited by evil Frantic Druids, but this fact was not affecting anyone on the planet directly at present. In front of the Pril residence, D'Kovo Pril was lightly sparring in Song-Fist style with...

For considerations of gravity, I have assumed that Punksteema is about the same size as Earth. Social and scientific development in Punksteeman countries varies widely, but the very greatest level of advancement is about the same as Planet Chimpanzia before outsiders began teaching the...

Hello! I'm the resident Really Old Guy. If you have any interest in writing, you can exercise it in the "Writing Club" section.

If this photograph comes through, it's of me (I'm the gray-haired one) with my friend Dave Ferguson in Maryland. His daughter is definitely for the Narnian BOOKS.

=_=_=_=_=_=_=_= Trail-Chooser Sahajil, wise woman of Upper Wenzeppu, had never let her guard down since Black-Thumb Stedriff and his goblin allies had been vanquished in Gahurr to the south. She had intimations of the evil brewing in Silnarp to the east, but intuitively understood that...

As children some sixty-five years ago, my sisters and I read an actual Mary Poppins book. The title character, as illustrated, was not at all physically beautiful; and though she genuinely cared about the Banks children, she was not so gushing or adventurous as in the movies.

Did you ever see the movie "Saving Mister Banks"?

Enough time has passed since we last saw Jonawiku son of Mofiruzo, the ronin-archer and jujitsu master, in Samplibam on Punksteema. The bad guys of House Burakarut have not yet put their crude Gatling gun into production. There's one way in which this invention is not at all crude: its bullets...

Something I would have liked to see in the L-W-W movie would be based on Mister Pevensie being in combat duty during World War Two. Say, a tank commander in the Sahara Desert, up against Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps. Shortly before the battle against Jadis begins, we would cut to Earth...

The President's address moved along to its main topic. Following is a very condensed version of its ninety-minute length. "All of you have been briefed on the means of communication available to you in the Life Avenue. Do not think for a minute that this means you can't converse with each...

On the Earth-variant where Street-Bat was born, we are about a year beyond the last scene set here, but still in the past relative to most of my story-worlds. The Yorkborough Life Avenue was up and running. Officials from the U.S. Department of Domestic Order gathered up the loose ends: facial...

In "Silver Chair," more could be made of the people at Experiment House. But don't let the people who produced "Rings of Power" get their hands on it. THEY would say that what MADE the school bad was having a CHRISTIAN faculty.