April 2006: Quicklinks

Gadgets on the Go

Cat Bag Couture
www.catbagcouture.com

The SciFi Podcast Network
www.podcastentertainmentnetwork.com/tsfpn/index.html

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Travelin’ the Web

UFO Maps
www.ufomaps.com

Google Mars
www.google.com/mars

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The Life of a UFOlogist

Dennis Balthaser
truthseekeratroswell.com/index.html
truthseekeratroswell.com/kids.html

The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON)
mufon.com

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Traveling Through Time

David Zondy’s Tales of Future Past
www.davidzondy.com/future/futurepas.htm

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Space Tourism

Space Adventures
www.spaceadventures.com

Virgin Galactic
www.virgingalactic.com

Rocketplane – Kistler
www.rocketplane.com
www.kistleraerospace.com

PlanetSpace
www.planetspace.org

Blue Origin
www.blueorigin.com

Incredible Adventures
www.incredible-adventures.com

Zero Gravity Corporation (Zero-G)
www.nogravity.com

U.S. Space Camp
spacecamp.com

Space.com

Omega World Travel
www.owt.net

Sci-Fi Fan Trips
www.sci-fi-fantrips.com

European Space Tourist
www.european-space-tourist.com (German)

Space Explorers
www.space-explorers.com

Cosmos magazine sample article page
“Space or Bust”
www.cosmosmagazine.com/samples

Further Reading
“Space Tourism,”
The Genre Traveler Blog Entry for October 2, 2005
thegenretraveler.braveblog.com/archive/10/02/2005

“Space Tourism — That Much Closer,”
The Genre Traveler Blog Entry for Jan. 19, 2006
thegenretraveler.braveblog.com/archive/01/19/2006

“Another Spaceport Planned,”
The Genre Traveler Blog Entry
for Feb. 18, 2006
thegenretraveler.braveblog.com/archive/02/18/2006

“Books on Space Tourism,”
The Genre Traveler Blog Entry for Feb. 20, 2006
thegenretraveler.braveblog.com/archive/02/20/2006
Books About Space Tourism page

“Space tourism industry takes off,” The Desert Sun
www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060320/NEWS10/603200332/1024

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Crop Circles

New “Got Milk?” TV commercials
www.gotmilk.com/fun/aliens.html

Aliens’ Story
planetinneed.com

Crop Circle & Sacred Places Research Tours
www.cropcircles.org

Earth Mysteries & Sacred Site Tours, Mysterious England
Crop Circle Tour

www.nccn.net/~wwithin/cropcir.htm

Astral Travels
www.astraltravels.co.uk/uk-london-tours/crop_circle_tours.htm

Richard Hawkins
monoecho.com (Personal Blog)

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David LaChapelle

David LaChapelle
davidlachapelle.com



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Museums of the Bizarre

Ripley’s Entertainment
www.ripleys.com

Marsh’s Free Museum
www.marshsfreemuseum.com

Museum of Wonder
www.museumofwonder.com

Torture Museum
www.torturemuseum.com

The Wax Museum at Fisherman’s Wharf
www.waxmuseum.com

Mothman Museum and Research Center
www.mothmanlives.com

Museum Tortury (Museum of Torture)
www.ckrumlov.cz/uk/mesto/firmy/i_mustor.htm

The Medieval Crime Museum
www.kriminalmuseum.rothenburg.de

Mütter Museum
www.collphyphil.org/muttpg1.shtml

The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices
www.mtn.org/quack/welcome.htm
www.smm.org

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Hunting Dinosaurs in Canada

ALBERTA

The Dinosaur Trail
www1.travelalberta.com/content/travellingto/take.cfm?roadtripID=15

Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
www.tyrrellmuseum.com

Devil’s Coulee Dinosaur Heritage Museum
www.devilscoulee.com/Main.html

Calgary Zoo and Prehistoric Park
www.calgaryzoo.org

BRITISH COLUMBIA
Dinotown
dinotown.com

ONTARIO

Bruce County Museum & Archives
www.brucecounty.on.ca/museum/dinosaurs/index.htm

Talisman Energy Fossil Gallery at the Canadian Museum of Nature
nature.ca/nature_e.cfm

Prehistoric World
www.c360.ca/morrisburg/pw

Dinosaur Park Miniature Golf
www.cliftonhill.com/niagara_falls_attractions/dinosaur_park_mini_golf

Dinosaur Valley Mini Golf
www.dinosaursudbury.ca

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

Jurassic Bart’s Dinosaur Museum and Petting Zoo
www.cavendishsavings.com/barts.html

SASKATCHEWAN

T.rex Discovery Centre
www.dinocountry.com

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Touring Genre Bookstores

Bookstore Tourism
www.bookstoretourism.com

UNITED STATES

California

Mysterious Galaxy Books
mysteriousgalaxy.booksense.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp

The Other Change of Hobbit
www.otherchangeofhobbit.com

Barry R. Levin Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature
www.raresf.com/bhome.html

Phantom Bookshop
www.phantoms.com

Dark Carnival
www.darkcarnival.com

Cobblestone Books
www.cobblestonebooks.com

Texas

Adventures in Crime & Space
www.crimeandspace.com

Minnesota

DreamHaven
dreamhavenbooks.com

Virginia

Creatures ‘n Crooks Bookshoppe
www.cncbooks.com

Massachusetts

Pandemonium Books & Games
www.pandemoniumbooks.com

AUSTRALIA

Galaxy Bookshop
www.galaxybooks.com.au

CANADA

BakkaPhoenix Books
www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com

White Dwarf Books Ltd.
www.deadwrite.com/wd.html

The Sentry Box
www.sentrybox.com

Seaside Book & Stamp
seaside.hfxns.org

Cold Drake Books
colddrake.com

SWEDEN

The Science Fiction Book Shop
213.80.60.99/sfbok/div/english.htm

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Happenings and Conventions

HAPPENINGS

Scarecrow Festival
graal.asso.free.fr/accueil/site-pagesEpeutnaer/entreeepeutnaer.html (French)

Edinburgh International Science Festival
www.sciencefestival.co.uk

Dance of the Devils
www.deliciousitaly.com/Siciliatour19.htm

May Day Fairie Festival
www.fairiefestival.net

Wave Gothic Meeting
www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/english

Mermaid Parade
mermaidparadeball.com

Roswell UFO Festival
www.dfn.com/festival

Robots and Us, California Science Center
www.robotsandus.org

The Gathering of the Fellowship
gatheringofthefellowship.org/convention/index.html

Harry Potter Fan Trips
www.hpfantrips.com

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
potcfantrips.com

Camp Inquiry
www.campinquiry.org

Wicker Man Festival
www.thewickermanfestival.co.uk

Space Camp
sci-fi-fantrips.com

CONVENTIONS

Concussion: Eastercon 2006
www.eastercon2006.org

RavenCon 2006
www.ravencon.org

Malice Domestic XVIII
www.malicedomestic.org

Nebula Awards Weekend
sfwa.org/awards/2006

World Horror Convention
whc2006.org

Balticon 40
www.balticon.org

Costume-Con 24
www.epicmovies.org

Monster Bash
www.creepyclassics.com

Conzilla, Westercon 59
www.conzilla.info

Shore Leave 28
www.shore-leave.com

TT20
www.tcon.ca

EVENT REVIEW

Horrorfind Weekend
www.horrorfindweekend.com

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Historic Moments and Observations

Get Caught Reading Month
www.getcaughtreading.org

Astronomy Week and Astronomy Day
www.astroleague.org/al/astroday/astrofacts.html

See America Week
www.tia.org/industrymeet/ntl_tourismweek.html

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Scene Around

Station Mont Tremblant
www.tremblant.ca

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