Farpoint’s 30th anniversary has come and gone and it was a fantastic weekend filled with amazing cosplayers (far more than pictured below), lively discussion panels, cooperative weather, and most importantly, quality time with friends.
The post-COVID return of the Lehigh Valley Comic Con (LVCC) was a success! It was a gorgeous day and attendance was the highest I’ve ever seen at this con. Sold six books. Made a profit. A few friends from the area showed up to keep me company. All told, it was a blast and as always, the cosplayers did not disappoint as you can see from the pictures below.
LVCC’s next show is October 1, but I will be signing books in Rehoboth Beach that day, so I’ll be back for their final show of the year on December 3rd.
My wife and I spent a marvelous day with several friends in Adamstown, PA, renowned for its myriad antique shops and the home of the Toy Robot Museum, owned and operated by longtime friend, Joe Knedlhans.
In addition to touring Joe’s incredible museum—which never gets old no matter how often we’re there—we managed to visit only four antique shops along Route 272. It would take an entire weekend to see them all, but many people in our group left with some amazing treasures.
The Toy Robot Museum is located in the Stoudtburg Village.
Address: 9 Market Plz, 17569 Reinholds, PA
Phone: (717) 484-0809
Co-founder of String Field Theory, Doctor Michio Kaku discusses the scientific plausibility of a wide range of popular science fiction devices, abilities, and technologies in his book, Physics of the Impossible.
The topics covered in this engaging analysis include force fields, invisibility cloaks, phasers, laser beams, lightsabers, teleportation, telepathy, time travel, robots, psychokinesis, UFOs, alien races, faster than light travel, and more. Doctor Kaku references many popular SF TV shows and films including Star Trek, Star Wars, Flash Gordon, Back to the Future, Doctor Who, The Fly, Independence Day, E.T., and others.
I was delighted to note that Doctor Kaku also draws from a rich array of SF novels and short stories such as The Man Without a Body by Edward Page Mitchell, The Disintegration Machine by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Slan by A.E. van Vogt, Larry Niven’s Ringworld series, Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and the works of Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, and Robert Heinlein.
Backed by practical and theoretical physics, chemistry, biology, and a rich history of scientific discoveries, Doctor Kaku offers detailed explanations as to which fictional technologies and abilities might be possible in the future and which are simply impractical—at least based on our current understanding of science.
Physics of the Impossible is by far one of the most enthralling and illuminating scientific discourses I’ve read to date. I equate Doctor Kaku with Doctors Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson for his considerable talents as a science communicator.
In our finale, Han Solo and the Rebel agents must fend off Boba Fett in order to return to the fleet with the coordinates of the black market ships, and Darth Vader arrives on Steruub to capture Luke Skywalker…
Click here to read the conclusion of “Star Wars: Pursuit of Force.”
In our second act, Luke Skywalker encounters the enigmatic Jianna Droxx on the planet Steruub—just before the Empire arrives. Meanwhile, Han Solo departs for Ord Mantell with two Alliance Intelligence agents to broker a black market deal for the Rebellion…