Space Time Stories

The data robots have started to take over, see http://www.mydl.me/ for details. Related posts Robot nearly kills someone (0)

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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 [...]

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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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io9 asks “Can Jesus Become Your New SF Hero?” Readers of this blog already know the answer:   YES ! If any of you are allowed to post comments on io9 I would appreciate a plug.  io9 will not even respond to my requests to be given permission to add comments. The io9 post is [...]

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io9 is a science fiction blog run by Gawker media.  They appear to want lots of input, but they also lock people out of adding comments.  Why don’t they want comments?  Perhaps it’s just me, has anybody been quickly given authority to comment? Related posts Free Science Fiction from Tor (0) Word Usage in SciFi [...]

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Charlie Stross writes in Accelerando about a variety of topics which challenge even the most technically savvy readers. First he mentions a Matrioshka brain, a massive extension of the Dyson Sphere. Imagine a Dyson Sphere is built which consists almost entirely of computational nodes. Each node will radiate a little waste heat so the entire [...]

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There are a lot of other websites out there which offer a great sample of scifi. The most popular according to Google are SF Site, Scifi.com. An useful one is at www.magicdragon.com with the Ultimate Science Fiction Web Guide. The interesting thing is that this site has not been updated in 4 years yet it’s [...]

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The Fermi Paradox allows for many explanations. One is that the human race encountered aliens in the past, we just don’t know about it. This anti-anthropocentric view does not offer an answer to the question “are they still here?” If they came a long time ago then they probably went away bored. If they came [...]

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Word doesn’t offer a word count histogram, so I wrote one in perl. I……. you are only about 3 minutes away from running your own word count on any document you like.

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Gordon Van Gelder wrote a post describing F&SF’s foray into free science fiction. He describes their policies then offers a survey to determine views towards online free science fiction. Most of the comments are from customers, not authors. So I’ll offer my 2 cents. The reason I publish my time travel stories online is that [...]

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