what's new, 1999

December 1999

31st • SF • Lois McMaster Bujold • A Civil Campaign
30th • SF TV • Earth: Final Conflict • season 1
29th • SF TV • Stargate SG1 • season 1
28th • computer cartoons • Illiad • User Friendly
26th • crime fiction • Sarah Caudwell • Thus was Adonis Murdered
18th • jokes • Hunting an Elephant in the 90s, Unix Shell Tricks, What if XXX made toasters?
15th • Dilbert • Scott Adams • Journey to Cubeville
13th • Dilbert • Scott Adams • Fugitive from the Cubicle Police
12th • SF • Mercedes Lackey • Werehunter
10th • Dilbert • Scott Adams • Build a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies
8th • computer joke • Haiku error messages
2nd • science • Richard Dawkins • Unweaving the Rainbow

November 1999

29th • crime fiction • Janet Neel • To Die For
25th • book joke • Literature Abuse: America's hidden affliction
20th • SF • Marion Zimmer Bradley • Sword and Sorceress XVI
14th • crackpot science • Simon Bradshaw on "Brain Eater Syndrome"
13th • SF • Tanya Huff • What Ho, Magic!
8th • TV series • Walking with Dinosaurs
4th • SF TV • Lexx • season 2
4th • chaos • Garnett P. Williams • Chaos Theory Tamed

October 1999

26th • ... and moved into our new house • which, since it is not exactly finished, means most of our stuff is in store :-(
25th • SF • John Varley • The Golden Globe
24th • SF film • The Haunting
23rd • SF TV • The Tribe • season 1
19th • SF/Dr Who • Ben Aaronovitch • The Also People
15th • moved out of our old house...
5th • SF • J. K. Rowling • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2nd • SF • James White • Mind Changer

September 1999

27th • SF • Tanya Huff • Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light
26th • SF • Jane Lindskold • Marks of Our Brothers
24th • language • Laurie Bauer and Peter Trudgill • Language Myths
23rd • mathematics • Paul Hoffman • The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
19th • SF • James P. Hogan • Paths to Otherwhere
7th • computer joke • Advertising Space
4th • SF film • Twelve Monkeys

August 1999

30th • SF TV/B5 • A Call to Arms
30th • SF • Linda Nagata • Tech-Heaven
26th • filk • Kay Shapero • In the Long Run...
25th • Web • All purpose disclaimer
20th • SF/programming • Klingon Programmer
11th • astronomy • total eclipse of the sun
9th • SF film • The Matrix
1st • SF • Tom Cool • Secret Realms

July 1999

25th • SF film • Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace
20th • space flight • "It was thirty years ago today..."
18th • SF • James P. Hogan • Rockets, Readheads and Revolution
18th • SF • James P. Hogan • Out of Time
17th • business • John Bear • Send This Jerk the Bedbug Letter
11th • SF • Vonda McIntyre • Dreamsnake
10th • SF film • Tank Girl
9th • filk • Tom Holt • Windows On My Mind
7th • SF • Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball • Acorna
6th • complexity • Per Bak • How Nature Works
2nd • computing/Web • Vincent Flanders and Michael Willis • Web Pages that Suck

June 1999

21st • SF • David R. Palmer • Emergence
15th • SF TV • Lexx: the Dark Zone Stories • season 1
14th • SF • Esther Friesner • Chicks 'n Chained Males
13th • SF • Joe Slater • review of Greg Egan's Oceanic
12th • SF • Christopher Pound • S+7 in One for the Morning Glory
11th • SF • Dani Zeig's Belated Reviews mirrored
6th • SF • Stephen Baxter • Vacuum Diagrams
2nd • computing • Tino Gramss et al. • Non-Standard Computation

May 1999

24th • Z • Abstract of "Systems Development using Z Generics"
22nd • music • Capercaillie •Dusk to Dawn 1999 Tour
19th • computing/OO • Ira R. Forman and Scott H. Danforth • Putting Metaclasses to Work
16th • physics/philosophy/computing • David Deutsch • The Fabric of Reality
15th • SF TV • Prey
14th • SF quiz • Lost in the Translation
7th • SF/B5 • J. Michael Straczynski and Mark Moretti • Babylon 5
5th • SF • John Dalmas • The Walkaway Clause
2nd • SF film • A Bug's Life

April 1999

30th • SF • Steven Gould • Helm
29th • SF TV • The Last Train
18th • language • George L. Campbell • Concise Compendium of the World's Languages
18th • SF • Marion Zimmer Bradley and Holly Lisle • In the Rift
17th • SF TV/B5 • Neil Gaiman • Day of the Dead
16th • complexity • John H. Holland • Hidden Order
13th • SF TV • X Files movie: Fight the Future
11th • SF con • Reconvene: Eastercon '99
11th • SF • Robin McKinley • Rose Daughter
11th • SF • Robin McKinley • Beauty
6th • SF • Diana Wynne Jones • Minor Arcana
6th • SF • John M. Ford • Web of Angels

March 1999

30th • SF • Harry Harrison • The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell
28th • SF • Analog. December 1998
27th • filk • Alison Brooks • Lord of the Rings, by Meat Loaf
23rd • computing • Richard P. Feynman • Feynman Lectures on Computation
21st • SF • David Weber • Worlds of Honor
20th • SF film • Species
8th • computing • Fortran bug Urban Legend
7th • language • Geoffrey Pullum • The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax

February 1999

28th • maths/computing • Gregory Chaitin • The Limits of Mathematics
27th • SF TV/B5 • River of Souls
25th • SF film • Johnny Mnemonic
22nd • compilers • Jim Holmes • Object-oriented Compiler Construction
21st • SF • Diane Duane • On Her Majesty's Wizardly Service
19th • SF • Greg Egan • Permutation City
16th • Dilbert • Scott Adams • The Dilbert Future
13th • SF film • My Stepmother is an Alien
11th • SF / language • translating The Eye of Argon
6th • parody • Michael S. Schiffer • Saturday Morning Shakespeare

January 1999

28th • filk • Kevin Wald • Banned from Aleph
24th • SF • L. Neil Smith • Henry Martyn
22nd • language • English pronunciation test
22nd • filk • Heather Rose Jones • Answering Machines of Harlech
17th • SF • Tanya Huff • Blood Debt
16th • SF film • Powder
16th • SF • Tanya Huff • Blood Pact
15th • writing • J. Michael Straczynski • The Complete Book of Scriptwriting
15th • SF • Tanya Huff • Blood Lines
15th • SF • James White • The White Papers
15th • SF • Tanya Huff • Blood Trail
11th • SF • Tanya Huff • Blood Price
10th • SF • Connie Willis • To Say Nothing of the Dog
9th • SF film • Star Trek: Insurrection
3rd • SF • Tara K. Harper • Cat Scratch Fever

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