Category: Science
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Science of Sci-Fi at M.I.T.
Tomorrow evening I'll be entering the august and notoriously long halls of the mighty Massachusetts Institute of Technology to take part in a panel discussion on "The Science of Sci-Fi." It will be held in M.I.T. Room 4-231 (wherever that may be) at 7:30 p.m. on May 13, and is open to the public. We'll…
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It’s Science!
Chad Orzel has a neat article up at Forbes on science in science fiction. I'd be lying if I didn't admit I'm linking it because he has some kind words for A Darkling Sea.
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What I’ve Been Up To
It's been a while since my last posting, due to a combination of being busy and being sick (and not getting well as fast as I'd like because of the busy component). Fortunately, I can make other people do the work for me. This podcast explains some of where I've been for the past month.…
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I Have Joined the Pod People
I have left the silent era and entered the world of podcasting. Rob Wolf interviewed me for his New Books in Science Fiction and Fantasy podcast. You can go here to listen to me talk about A Darkling Sea, Aztecs, why roleplaying games are different from novels, Bone Wars, my obsession with getting stuff right,…
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A New Blog
The United Nations Interstellar Cooperation Agency has a new blog devoted to their Ilmatar interstellar mission. Check it out here. There's also a link to a site with some cool HENRI KERLEREC merchandise.
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Comet ISON, RIP
Turns out barnstorming less than a million miles above the Sun's visible surface at more than a thousandth of the speed of light can be dangerous if you're a chunk of ice. Comet ISON disappeared behind the Sun earlier today . . . and failed to reappear on the other side. Around Christmas time we…
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The Big News
Over the past few weeks we've been bombarded with all sorts of news, as we always are: political goings-on, economic crises, scandals, celebrity shenanigans, sports . . . and it all seems terribly important and everyone feels it necessary to let the world know what they think via Twitter and Facebook. Meanwhile there's this: fusion…
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Predicting The Future
I read this guest post on Sarah Hoyt's 'blog, and it got me to thinking. As Mr. Begley points out, one of the constant refrains of our time is how "the future" that we're living in doesn't look like "the future" as depicted in mid-20th Century science fiction and popular science articles. We don't have…
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RIP Kepler
Well, it's official: the Kepler planet-finding telescope is out of business. Its attitude control wheels aren't working with the precision needed to keep the spacecraft aimed properly, so it's no longer capable of looking for planets beyond the Solar System. It's still a functional telescope, and NASA's now shopping around looking for a new mission.…
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Viddy the Squiddy
Here's a neat news story: the first video footage of a giant squid in its natural habitat. Since I don't get the Discovery Channel, I'll have to be satisfied with looking at bootleg snippets on Youtube until the documentary finally makes it to Netflix. However, one line in the news story caught my attention: that…
The Cambias Digression 