what's new, 1998

December 1998

29th • SF film • Antz
27th • SF film • Casper
27th • SF film • Babe
23rd • SF • Wil McCarthy • Murder in the Solid State
23rd • Java • Java-SIG • 100 Best Applets
19th • SF • Marion Zimmer Bradley • Sword & Sorceress XV
17th • steganography • Peter Wayner • Disappearing Cryptography
17th • SF • Ardath Mayhar • Exile on Vlahil
13th • SF • Laurell K. Hamilton • Nightseer
12th • SF TV• Doctor Who episode guide
8th • SF • James P. Hogan • Star Child
6th • SF • Laurell K. Hamilton • Blue Moon
4th • SF • Connie Willis • Fire Watch
1st • SF • Greg Bear, ed • New Legends

November 1998

29th • SF • Philip E. High • Blindfold from the Stars
29th • SF • Robin McKinley • A Knot in the Grain
24th • SF • Esther Friesner • The Sherwood Game
22nd • SF • Ken MacLeod • The Stone Canal
16th • SF • David Weber • Echoes of Honor
14th • SF • Pamela Dean • Tam Lin
12th • SF film • Armageddon
7th • computers • Eric Raymond • The New Hacker's Dictionary
5th • cognition • Valentino Braitenberg • Vehicles
5th • Calvin and Hobbes • Bill Watterson • There's Treasure Everywhere
2nd • SF • Catherine Asaro • Catch the Lightning
1st • SF • Laurell K. Hamilton • Burnt Offerings

October 1998

25th • SF • Mercedes Lackey • Four and Twenty Blackbirds
24th • SF TV mini-series • Ultraviolet
19th • SF • Laurell K. Hamilton • The Killing Dance
18th • SF • Laurell K. Hamilton • Bloody Bones
17th • physics • Michio Kaku • Hyperspace
12th • filk • various • Modern Alien Entity
12th • SF • Laurell K. Hamilton • The Lunatic Cafe
11th • SF • Janet Kagan • Hellspark
11th • SF • Harlan Ellison • The City on the Edge of Forever
4th • cognition • Daniel C. Dennett • Kinds of Minds
4th • fiction • Dorothy L. Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh • Thrones, Dominations
2nd • Z, compilers • High Integrity Compilation • now available on the Web

September 1998

27th • SF • Steven Gould • Wildside
27th • SF • Jan Clark • Prodigy
27th • SF TV/B5 • Thirdspace
20th • SF • Laurell K. Hamilton • Circus of the Damned
19th • SF • Catherine Asaro • Primary Inversion
19th • SF film • Judge Dredd
19th • SF • J. Michael Straczynski and Peter David • In Valen's Name
12th • SF • Laurell K. Hamilton • The Laughing Corpse
6th • SF TV/B5 • In the Beginning
5th • SF • Marion Zimmer Bradley, Andre Norton, and Mercedes Lackey • Tiger Burning Bright

August 1998

30th • SF con • The Wrap Party: Babylon 5 fan con
29th • SF • Isaac Asimov • Magic
29th • SF • James White • Final Diagnosis
28th • SF • Michael Flynn • The Forest of Time and other stories
16th • SF • John Clute • Science Fiction: the Illustrated Encyclopedia
15th • consciousness • Gerald Edelman • Bright Air, Brilliant Fire
15th • SF film • A Chinese Ghost Story II
3rd • SF • Robin McKinley • The Hero and the Crown
2nd • maths • Simon Singh • Fermat's Last Theorem

July 1998

26th • maths • Euclid's proof for Pythogorean Triples
26th • SF • Lois McMaster Bujold • Komarr
19th • SF • James P. Hogan • Bug Park
17th • Z • Abstract of "A Tale of Two Proofs"
13th • SF • Marion Zimmer Bradley • The Best of MZBFM
12th • analogy • Douglas R. Hofstadter • Le Ton beau de Marot
11th • SF • Esther Friesner • Wishing Season
10th • SF • Lois McMaster Bujold • Barrayar
9th • Z • Abstract of "More Powerful Z Data Refinement"
7th • maths • proof that Graham's number >> Moser's number

June 1998

28th • SF • Ardath Mayhar • A Place of Silver Silence
28th • SF • Asimov's Laws of Robotics, Clarke's Laws
28th • SF • Isaac Asimov • Gold
27th • perception • Bruno Ernst • The Eye Beguiled
27th • SF film • Trapped in Space
21st • science • Stephen Jay Gould • Questioning the Millennium
21st • primes • p divides (p-1)!+1
20th • SF • Margaret Ball • Mathemagics
16th • complexity • Armin Bunde and Shlomo Havlin • Fractals in Science
14th • science • Robert Weber • A Random Walk in Science
13th • SF TV mini-series • Invasion: Earth
11th • computers • Clifford Pickover • Computers and the Imagination
10th • maths • Keith Selkirk and William Wynne Willson • Fifty per cent Proof
8th • SF • Esther Friesner • Did You Say Chicks?!
7th • complexity • Ivars Peterson • Newton's Clock
3rd • language • a few English language resources

May 1998

30th • SF • Tara K. Harper • Storm Runner
25th • SF • Tara K. Harper • Shadow Leader
24th • SF con • Intuition: Eastercon '98
23rd • SF • Laurell K. Hamilton • Guilty Pleasures
23rd • complexity • Christoph Adami • Introduction to Artificial Life
16th • SF • John Cramer • Einstein's Bridge
13th • SF • Dorothy J. Heydt • A Point of Honor
10th • SF • Tanya Huff • Summon the Keeper
4th • SF • Charles Sheffield • Tomorrow and Tomorrow
3rd • SF • Tara K. Harper • Wolfwalker

April 1998

26th • SF • Marion Zimmer Bradley • Sword & Sorceress XIV
26th • SF TV mini-series • Oktober
26th • Dilbert • Scott Adams • I'm Not Anti-Business, I'm Anti-Idiot
16th • SF • Mercedes Lackey • Fiddler Fair
6th • SF • Elizabeth Moon • Once a Hero
5th • SF • Mercedes Lackey • Oathblood
4th • SF • Jeffrey Carver • The Infinite Sea
1st • SF film • Masters of the Universe
1st • SF • Jeffrey Carver • Strange Attractors

March 1998

31st • SF film • Terminator 2: Special Edition
15th • SF • Jeffrey Carver • Neptune Crossing
15th • computing • Terry Winograd • Bringing Design to Software
14th • SF • Judy-Lynn del Rey • Stellar 1
9th • primes • latest Mersenne prime: 2^3021377 - 1
9th • computing • spoof Stroustrup C++ 'interview'
7th • computing • The Unicode Standard, version 2.0
7th • SF • Cary Osborne • Deathweave

February 1998

22nd • complexity • Stewart and Cohen • Figments of Reality
15th • computing • summary of various programming languages
14th • SF • David Weber • More than Honor
8th • Web • Abigail's WWW Dream rescued
8th • computing • Sherry Turkle • Life on the Screen
1st • SF • Spider Robinson • User Friendly

January 1998

2nd • SF • Poul Anderson • All One Universe

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