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    A world without books

    August 22nd, 2010 · No Comments

    if books printed with atoms disappear from our lives then God help our society because we are doomed

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    Creativity

    July 5th, 2010 · No Comments

    Interesting ideas on creativity from Creatologue.

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    Scifi Optimists versus Scifi Pessimists

    September 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments

    Scifi pessimists say – we’ll never be able to feed 8 billion people.
    Scifi optimists invent algae which can fix nitrogen from the air, generate fertilizer, and live in a symbiotic relationship with roots of food plants in airborne greenhouses.
    Scifi pessimists say – global warming will kill us all.
    Scifi optimists invent CO2 scavenging algae which generate [...]

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    Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

    June 11th, 2009 · No Comments

    Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
    I have never cared about the zombie theme, but I can’t wait to read this.

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    Joe Haldeman’s Accidental Time Machine

    May 28th, 2009 · No Comments

    Just finished listening to Joe Haldeman’s “The Accidental Time Machine” from Audible.

    As a time travel story it was excellent, there was a time machine, multiple uses of that machine, time travel was a key element of the story, and there was even a time loop. The overall story dragged at many points, especially when [...]

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    Six word Scifi stories

    May 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment

    Six word scifi stories are excellent !
    Mine says:
    Time machine broken, dinosaurs are drooling !

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    Great writing = Verbs

    April 19th, 2009 · No Comments

    Want to be a great writer?  Quit using adjectives and adverbs.   Use verbs.
    Here’s a list of verbs.  Right-click “Save As” to save these to a file.
    Study them and use them. Your writing will shift to a new level.
    If you like this list perhaps you might consider reading your next book on a Kindle !

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    Data Robotics

    April 16th, 2009 · No Comments

    The data robots have started to take over, see http://www.mydl.me/ for details.

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    Singularity, a free audiobook

    January 29th, 2009 · 3 Comments

    I have started listening to a free audiobook, Singularity by Bill DeSmedt. So far it’s great, it’s about the real cause of the Tunguska explosion.
    I’ll review the book when I’m done listening to it.
    I listen to it as a podcast feed.  I had some trouble setting up the feed in iTunes, the response of [...]

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    Your own personal stereotype

    January 18th, 2009 · No Comments

    This is slightly off topic for this blog, but I found this ZenHabits post to be deeply profound.  To sum it up, virtually everyone fits into a pidgeonhole:  the smart guy, the cold physician, the golf hack, the office gossip, the troubleshooter, the troublemaker.  It applies to scifi writers too.  How many pidgeonholed authors have [...]

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