Aphelion

I know the editorial board is very busy, but this disappointing spring publication period seems to come on the heels of general tardiness from the past few issues.<br><br>Action point?<br><br>Maybe Aphelion should sell ad space.  You get xx many visits a month?  Maybe the editors could share the pro...

What a topic.<br><br>I don't think the Earth's magnetosphere can be randomly defeated, can it? It's constantly being bombarded with solar storms and all that does it give it its shape and structure. You would have to cool the hot liquid metal (make it solid) in the Earth's core to remove the fluid m...

It felt more like a vignette than a full-bodied story, but an interesting scene nontheless. <br><br>It's funny what Megawatts said. I actually had a feeling it was going to take a United 93 turn, but that's just me. Let a passenger in the cockpit? Just sounded kinda dangerous under current conditions.

Is there a reason April doesn't have its own forum category? The board feels kinda spooky without one.

At least Bush didn't get to axe the Clean Air Act. I got this in an e-mail: <br><br><br>"NRDC has turned back the <br>Bush administration's most aggressive attempt to dismantle the Clean Air Act <br>for the sake of America's biggest polluters.<br> <br>Four years ago, the administration issued new ru...

If you Aphelions (Aphelioites? Apheliophiles?) want to help Robert Starr out, a great thing to do is post reviews on Amazon and the like. I recently bought a fantasy novel by a no-name author on Amazon based soley on customer reviews, lacking any other information about the small press book. :-/

I came across this one years ago. I think they've added a few new items since then. <br><br>I'm suprised they still don't list "false pretenses." I hate it when people say that. >:(

I usually don't have time to read much of the website but this one sucked me in. I haven't read any other stories in the Al Majius series, now I'm very tempted to.<br><br>It reminded me a little of Terry Pratchett. Sharp wit and the switch in POV from Al to his wife during the contest was very effec...

I don't know how why but I can't write a story without making myself look like I just graduated an ESL class.<br><br>M. Maldonado: <br><br>Under description is a critique I hear a lot so it's clearly something I need to work on. I want things to happen too quickly. <br><br>Buck is a combination of d...

I'm going to avoid joining the Ménage à Marilyn discussion and focus on the story. On cloning: As I understand it, at current technology levels the source cells used to make a clone have, in essence, a "time index." That is to say a clone is a clone of the cell at that point in it's life. I has no ...

To Mr Sosa, Thanks for the input. Quite true my knowledge of cloning is limited to an osmotic understanding gained from pop culture. Alas, much of my knowledge is... (As for my other query, you sucked the life out of what might have been a rip-roaring debate among the partially informed). Dan E. <b...

One thing that struck me as, well, maybe a bit incongruous, was how articulate Marilyn was. Does that ring true? I only know her from how Hollywood presented her... And then, sadly, this essentially well-wrought story about cloning and rights and, more specifically, the idea of multiple Marilyns go...