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  1. Kevin

    Announcements Server Changes This Weekend

    This weekend I'll be leaving the vBSEO add-on turned off for performance testing. vBSEO, amongst other things, is what gives us the nice looking URLs with the thread title in the URL instead of the thread ID number. EG: Instead of http://www.coolscifi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=123 you would...
  2. Kevin

    Announcements Excluding Forums When Searching

    A change was implemented tonight that affects all existing members! :eek: Prior to tonight there was a simple "Yes / No" option in the User Control Panel asking if you wanted to include the Usenet forums when viewing new posts and when searching. While that method worked it did not work very...
  3. Tim

    Cool Sci-Fi's 10 Questions With... Melissa Mead, author of Between Worlds

    Melissa Mead first novel Between Worlds is about the Kankenni race who live underground under constant threat from humans and one half breed girl, Miska, who ventures into the human realm exploring humanity through innocent eyes that learn fast. Q1: How did you decide to get into writing...
  4. Tim

    Cool Sci-Fi's 10 Questions With... Anderson Gentry

    We speak to Anderson Gentry who's first novel The Crider Chronicles is out in both print and e-book, with a plan to carry on his story over four volumes spanning almost 500 years of exploration, colonial enterprises and fighting criminals and aliens alike in mankind's quest for a future in the...
  5. Kevin

    Announcements Major SQL crash!

    This week we have suffered a major setback in that our MySQL database became corrupted. After many attempts at repairing the 'post' table it was lost cause. Switching to Plan B of restoring from an automated backup did not work either as we found out that the automated backup files have not...
  6. Kevin

    Announcements ** Construction **

    :working: This weekend, Oct. 22 & 23, we'll be taking the site down for a few hours as we upgrade Cool SciFi to vBulletin 3.5! The upgrade should only take a few hours but if something unexpected comes up we'll postpone the upgrade until a future date. Thanks, - The Cool SciFi Team
  7. Tim

    Cool Sci-Fi's 10 Questions with... JC Dellatorre, author of Ancient Rising

    De La Torre’s first book, Ancient Rising, follows the adventures of widower Dan Ryan, an author who lost his wife and daughter to a tragic car accident and goes on to find the lost continent of Atlantis and releasing the Gods from an ancient curse. We talk to JC about his career path and love of...
  8. Tim

    Cool Sci-Fi's 10 Questions with... Stephen S. Arend, author of Soul Searcher

    Stephen S. Arends first novel : Soul Searcher is out now and his second work is in the writing process. We talk to Stephen about the path to becoming an author and what drives his work. Q1: How long did it take to write your first novel from start to finish and what sort of commitments did you...
  9. Kevin

    Announcements Changes to the Links Directory

    We've made some changes to our Links Directory. Besides cleaning up some of the categories we've added a new feature where you can see a 'thumb nail' preview of the site! :cool: So get busy, if you have a favorite sci-fi / fantasy site that isn't already in our directory add it now...
  10. Kevin

    Announcements Vacation Time

    I'll be on vacation from Sept. 1, 2005 to Sept. 11, 2005. While I'm gone Mr. Destructo will be taking care of everything. See you in a few weeks, and aloha! :jiggy: Kevin
  11. Kevin

    Announcements Construction Underway

    You may have already noticed but temporarily the front page 'portal' is disabled. This is due to some construction going on. Hopefull everything will be back to normal soon. :working: The front page portal is back up again. Some of you may have noticed that the version number at the...
  12. Kevin

    Announcements Alien Soup Terms and Rules

    As the site grows so does the need to need come with some basic rules & regulations that are to be followed by all of our community members. These rules & regulations in the handbook will be updated as needed. :) Alien Soup's Community Member's Handbook 1. Respect your fellow community...
  13. Kevin

    Announcements King Kovifor Joins Our Staff!

    I'm happy to announce that King Kovifor has joined our staff! :cool: Starting today King Kovifor is our new moderator of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Books forum. King Kovifor is new member of the Cool SciFi community but you may know him from other sites such as Then and Now where he did a...
  14. Kevin

    Cool Sci-Fi's 10 Questions With... StarTrek-Online.net

    For our second edition of Cool SciFi's 10 Questions With... we talk with the guys behind StarTrek-Online.net. StarTrek-Online.net (STOnet) is a new Star Trek community dedicated to the Star Trek: Online game that is in development by Perpetual Entertainment for the PC platform. Star Trek...
  15. Kevin

    Announcements We are moving!

    http://www.coolscifi.com/forums/images/icons/icon14.gifUpdate: The move is complete! Thanks to Zachery (you may know him from the vBulletin community) the move was done pretty fast and everything is up and running again. Very cool. Now I can stop worrying about running about of drive space and...
  16. Kevin

    Announcements Construction in the next few days...

    http://www.coolscifi.com/forums/images/smilies/contruction.gif Just wanted to give a heads up that we'll be doing some construction over the next few days. Nothing exciting -- just time for another vBulletin upgrade. This time from 3.0.5 to 3.0.6 but everytime we upgrade we have to make sure...
  17. Kevin

    Cool Sci-Fi's 10 Questions With... James Fink, Author of Robot Soul

    Welcome to Cool SciFi's 10 Questions With...! In the days ahead we will be sitting down and talking with people from the sci-fi & fantasy genres to bring exclusively to you, our community members, some insight into the people behind the works that we all enjoy. If you have suggestion for future...
  18. Kevin

    Announcements Artisan Cafe now open!

    The Artisan Cafe is now open and we have a new staff member! I am happy to announce that Mr. Destructo has come joined our staff as the moderator of the new Artisan Cafe forums. :cool: http://www.coolscifi.com/forums/images/smilies/painter.gifThe new Artisan Cafe forums are for people to share...
  19. Kevin

    Announcements New Battlestar Galactica Stuff

    http://www.coolscifi.com/gallery/files/1/bsg_02_1024x768_thumb.jpg With the new Battlestar Galactica series taking off with good ratings (don't forget to watch 10:00pm Friday nights!) I figured it was time add some BSG areas to Cool SciFi. We're always looking for new items to add to the gallery...
  20. Kevin

    Announcements Change to the arcade...

    A slight change was done to the Arcade settings -- Before the option to play any of the arcade games appears you need to make at least one post for the day. You can still go ahead and view the high scores and go into your settings, etcetra, but to actually play at least one post is needed...
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