From Twitter 09-02-2010

[jeffreyab]

• BBC News - Charles Darwin's terraforming experiment on Ascension isle http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11137903 {Cool!]
  
• RT @dougsmithwriter: New issue of new Canadian SF e-mag "Kasma" now available: http://tinyurl.com/mfjpa8
  
• RT @dougsmithwriter: Apple: 35 Million E-books downloaded *<The future!*> http://bit.ly/ddLhDT
  
• RT @SarniaObserver: Cdn. Chris Hadfield to command International Space Station: http://bit.ly/d6m31q He grew up in #Sarnia ! #NASA
  
• RT @scalzi: Jetse de Vries is at the Hilton bar, so it is now officially the party bar.
  
• The SF book covers of my youth in the 60s & 70s. Ah memories back then the covers themselves warped your mind! http://t.co/s0t7xA3 via @io9
  
• Pictures of the Terraformed Ascension Island, a work in progress: http://www.les-smith.com/Ascension-Island/visit-2006-7-dec-27.htm
  
• Roger Ebert on Glen Beck and the subtle liying of the American Right http://bit.ly/aqbgM4 via @AddToAny
  

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Comments

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

Contents rarely lived up to covers, though...

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

It really depended on the author some of the novels from then are considered classics.

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

You have

Kenneth Bulmer
Philip K. Dick
Walter M. Miller
Keith Laumer before the accident
Murray Leinster
L. Sprague de Camp

The 60's and the 70's were the heyday of the science fiction paperback original.

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

Yes, but there was usually a mismatch. For example, the story was rarely as dripping with sensuality as the scantily clad flesh on the cover would imply.