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David Nolan dies at 66; founder of the Libertarian Party
David F. Nolan, whose disgruntlement with conventional politics — especially President Nixon's imposition of wage and price controls in 1971 — drove him to launch the Libertarian Party with a small group of friends, has died. He was 66.
Nolan...Tags: California, Texas, John McCain, Washington, DC, Republican Party
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Astral Weeks: A sci-fi master's beginnings
!["I am submitting the enclosed short story 'LIFE-LINE' for either 'Astounding' or 'Unknown,'" Robert A. Heinlein wrote to editor John Campbell in 1939, "because I am not sure which policy it fits the better."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-12/58208423-10154158.jpg ""I am submitting the enclosed short story 'LIFE-LINE' for either 'Astounding' or 'Unknown,'\" Robert A. Heinlein wrote to editor John Campbell in 1939, \"because I am not sure which policy it fits the better.\"")
Special to the Los Angeles Times"I am submitting the enclosed short story 'LIFE-LINE' for either 'Astounding' or 'Unknown,'" Robert A. Heinlein wrote to editor John Campbell in 1939, "because I am not sure which policy it fits the better." The former magazine published science fiction,...Tags: California, Science Fiction (genre), Upton Sinclair, Social Issues, Health and Medical Professionals
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New media and publishing, starring Wil Wheaton
Jacket CopyIt's three days later, and I'm still trying to get a handle on the most important elements of the Festival of Books "#book: new media meets publishing" panel discussion. And I think I should have figured it out by now,...... -
Philip K. Dick in the O.C.
Jacket CopyHe was a Berkeley bohemian who moved to what he called the land of plastic. Science fiction visionary Philip K. Dick spent the last decade of his life in the unlikely climes of Orange County, and a symposium on Friday...... -
From the Vaults: 'First Spaceship on Venus' (1960)
The Daily MirrorWell, "First Spaceship on Venus" is quite the odd little movie: a vintage space epic filmed in East Germany and co-produced with Poland. It features an international team of characters and a strong anti-nuclear message! Released in German as "Der... -
Philip K. Dick in Orange County, a stranger in a strange land
The Hero ComplexPART 1: PHILIP K. DICK, THE LAST DECADE The last years of his life, Philip K. Dick lived in, of all places, Orange County, a Southern California setting that made the life-battered sci-fi writer something of a (to borrow from...... -
Philip K. Dick in the land of the John Birch Society
The Hero ComplexPART 2: PHILIP K. DICK, THE LAST DECADE The last years of his life, Philip K. Dick lived in, of all places, Orange County, a Southern California setting that made the life-battered sci-fi writer something of a stranger in a...... -
Philip K. Dick, an uneasy spy inside 1970s suburbia
The Hero ComplexPART 3: PHILIP K. DICK, THE LAST DECADE During the last years of his life, Philip K. Dick lived in, of all places, Orange County, a Southern California setting that made the life-battered sci-fi writer something of a stranger in...... -
Philip K. Dick finds God and madness at his doorstep
The Hero ComplexPART 4: PHILIP K. DICK, THE LAST DECADE During the last years of his life, Philip K. Dick lived in, of all places, Orange County, a Southern California setting that made the life-battered sci-fi writer something of a stranger in...... -
Philip K. Dick scans the darkness in Disneyland's shadow
The Hero ComplexPART 5: PHILIP K. DICK, THE LAST DECADE During the last years of his life, Philip K. Dick lived in, of all places, Orange County, a Southern California setting that made the life-battered sci-fi writer something of a stranger in...... -
Philip K. Dick's legacy emerges from the maze of death [UPDATED]
The Hero ComplexPART 6: PHILIP K. DICK, THE LAST DECADE During the last years of his life, Philip K. Dick lived in, of all places, Orange County, a Southern California setting that made the life-battered sci-fi writer something of a stranger in...... -
L.A.'s Nostradamus
BRIAN DOHERTY is a senior editor of Reason magazine and the author of "Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement."THE science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein was born in Missouri, and his fiction was mostly set in the future and on distant planets. But there's no question that Heinlein — born 100 years ago this week — was one of Southern California's...Tags: California, Science Fiction (genre), Upton Sinclair, Republican Party, Missouri
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