A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’Engle My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Big Fun in a Little Package Novella Challenge. This was actually the first book in this series I read. It so absorbed me that I sought out the rest of the series wherever I found it. Once again, a […]
Read More Book Review: A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’EngleA Wind in the Door by Madeleine L’Engle My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Big Fun in a Little Package Novella Challenge and the Women of Genre Fiction Challenge. I read this book as a child (obviously I don’t remember what day, but I’m guessing based on the age I was and […]
Read More Book Review: A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L’EngleI’m not sure I agree it will “save the earth” – still gotta worry about that climate change stuff. But it should help! And certainly, asteroid mining will bolster our access to technology and open up opportunities. Asteroid mining figures prominently in my work in progress, The Cloud.
Read More How Asteroid Mining Will Save EarthA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Women of Genre Fiction Challenge and the Space Opera Challenge. I last read this book when I was still a child. I was prompted to a re-read because of the release of the movie, so I could compare and […]
Read More Book Review: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’EngleBy Andrew Masterson The technological challenges involved in sending a crewed mission to Mars are daunting, but new research highlights the need to focus on the psychology of spaceflight to prevent world’s first Mars explorers arriving at their destination stark raving crazy. A paper in the journal American Psychologist reviews the already extensive research done by NASA into […]
Read More How to Get to Mars Without Going MadHere’s the archive of my appearance on the Pagan-Musings Podcast. It’s very off-the-cuff! This is probably is the closest to how I am IRL that I’ve heard on a podcast because I was so relaxed. Enjoy! Author Diane Morrison, aka Sable Aradia, returns to the show to talk fiction and nonfiction. She’s been hard at […]
Read More I Was on the Pagan-Musings PodcastThe Bronze Skies by Catherine Asaro My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge, the Read the Sequel Challenge, and the Space Opera Challenge. I have a great story to tell about this book before I can offer the review. I was putting together a panel on Speculative […]
Read More Book Review: The Bronze Skies by Catherine AsaroLivestreamed reading of Chapter 1 of Homefront, my Toy Soldier Saga novella, which appeared in the limited edition On the Horizon book bundle! Want the rest of the story? You can get it here or here, or you could sign up for my Patreon at the $2 a month plus level, which will give you […]
Read More Homefront: Toy Soldier Saga Livestreamed Reading!At All Costs by David Weber My rating: 4 of 5 stars Read for the Military Spec-Fic Reading Challenge, the Read the Sequel Challenge, and the Space Opera Challenge. This book is a lot of things at once. The first half of it is a romance novel. Which is excellent; after all, fans of the […]
Read More Book Review: At All Costs by David WeberBy Morgan Mcallister, NASA The Advanced Plant Habitat (APH), a recent addition to the International Space Station, is the largest growth chamber aboard the orbiting laboratory. Roughly the size of a mini-fridge, the habitat is designed to test which growth conditions plants prefer in space and provides specimens a larger root and shoot area. This […]
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