#30days30authors I should have posted this hours ago, but I’m trying to make a deadline. Here’s an excerpt from my hard sci-fi project! “I can’t believe we’re finally decelerating!” Bianca sighed over morning coffee in the lounge. Over the course of the three year journey this had become a regular custom for the crew. “It […]
Read More Excerpt from The Cloud by Diane Morrison#30days30authors What else would you add to this map?
Read More The Map of Space Opera MythologyI am ready for the vat-meat! I tried to be a vegetarian several years ago because I strongly disapprove of the way we treat animals in the industrial farming industry, but with gluten sensitivities and lactose intolerance I just couldn’t make it work. Not on my budget, anyway. I think it would be a marvelous […]
Read More 5 Years Away from Lab-Grown MeatOriginally posted on The Toy Soldier Saga:
You may have noticed that I’m making some changes around here. In light of long years of trying to get the attention of Wizards of the Coast, to no avail, I have decided to revamp and rebrand the Toy Soldier Saga to scrape out all the Wizards related…
By Lewis Darnell As an astrobiologist I spend a lot of my time working in the lab with samples from some of the most extreme places on Earth, investigating how life might survive on other worlds in our solar system and what signs of their existence we could detect. If there is biology beyond the […]
Read More Why Would Aliens Even Bother with Earth?A little nerd humour for the BC election today. North Vancouver has become the ultimate battleground for a pair of intergalactic candidates. Reddit user hpka spotted these Simpsons-inspired campaign signs on the Mount Seymour Parkway. Read the full article at the Vancouver Sun.
Read More Spotted on Reddit: Kodos, Kang in Tight Race in North VancouverWell, it’s clear that space opera is making a comeback! It’s too bad they don’t seem to notice that none of these themes are new. Thanks to their folkloric storytelling and galaxy-spanning scale, “space operas” have always been near to science fiction’s heart. Even the chilliest of them – Olaf Stapledon’s Last and First Men, […]
Read More Space Opera is Taking Humanity to its LimitsHere are the top 17 candidates for the Canadian Space Agency’s astronaut training program! Men and women from all over the country; doctors, soldiers, pilots, scientists. Here’s one job with no glass ceiling. 😉 Also, I really loved this graphic and had to use it in a blog post (courtesy Canadian Space Agency). Astronauts are […]
Read More Canadian AstronautsThe conditions of the contest I have entered prevent me from posting the title of my sci-fi story, which is going to drop for my Patrons tomorrow! This will be a charged post. Support my Patreon here!
Read More Dropping Tomorrow at Patreon: My Sci-Fi StoryPreliminary results from NASA’s study of Scott and Mark Kelly appear to show fascinating physiological and genetic changes but more analysis is needed before any conclusions can be made. Read full article at Seeker.com.
Read More Space Changes Your DNA
