”Fallen Angels” (1991) (ISBN 0-7434-3582-6) is a Prometheus Award-winning novel by science fiction authors Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn published by Jim Baen. The novel was written as a tribute to science fiction fandom, and includes many of its well-known figures, legends, and practices. It also champions modern technology and heaps scorn upon [...]
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Steve Sciulli Steve built his first synthesizer at the age of 10, and started the flute at 14. He was a founding member of the Celtic rock band “Ploughman’s Lunch”, and numerous other regional and national touring musical groups. Steve has composed and recorded music for over thirty major theater, dance, and performance art groups. [...]

Biomineralization (e.g. silicification) is quite common in the biological world and occurs in bacteria, single-celled organisms, plants (e.g. petrified wood), and animals (invertebrates and vertebrates). Crystalline minerals formed in this type of environment often show exceptional mechanical properties (e.g. strength, hardness, fracture toughness) and tend to form hierarchical structures that exhibit microstructural order over a [...]

The overall Main Street redevelopment project was created by a consortium of architects and engineers led by Good Fulton & Farrell Architects, the Slaney/Santana Group and Cardenas-Salcedo and Associates. Artist Brad Goldberg was responsible for the design of the Pegasus Plaza itself. Although the plaza sits in the shadow of the 50-year-old namesake neon sculpture [...]
Podlings A race of gentle “earth-people” native to Thra and affiliated with the Gelflings. They are called so because they tend all things that grow, above all the giant Pod plants in whose vast seed-pods they made their villages. The Podlings are dwarf-like in stature yet with very rounded, circular-shaped, bulbous heads and small round [...]

Blue Crystal Staff Mishakal’s Blue Crystal Staff was a proof of the existence, and return, of the Gods of Good during the War of the Lance. The staff was said to enable good-hearted wielders to perform miracles of healing and protection. Mishakal had Riverwind take the staff from Xak Tsaroth, where it was guarded by [...]

The first discotic liquid crystal was found in 1977 by the Indian researcher Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar. This molecule has one central benzene ring surrounded by six alkyl chains. Since then, a large number of discoid mesogenic compounds have been discovered in which triphenylene, porphyrin, phthalocyanine, coronene, and other aromatic molecules are involved. The typical columnar liquid-crystalline [...]




