Space Time Stories

Scientists have analyzed noise in the GEO600 gravitational wave detection system and concluded it is holographic in nature.
This leads them to propose that this entire universe is a holographic projection.
That is one serious projector.  The computational power required to process the signals and send them to the projector probably outpaces an entire galaxy of Matrioshka [...]

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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 about a SciFi [...]

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For several years now I have been greeted at church by a pleasant older usher, never dreaming that his brother was a science fiction giant:   Matt Jeffries  !!  Richard Jeffries has written a book about his famous brother.
http://www.mattjefferies.com/wmjb.html
The book is “Beyond the Clouds”

Matt flew a “secret reconnaissance bomber” during WWII, build airplanes, designed the Enterprise [...]

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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?

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I just finished listening to Richard Morgan’s Thirteen from Audible. This new novel is an involving story about a genetically engineered mutant, such people carry the nickname Thirteen. Reminds me of Rome. The 13th Legion warriors were aggressive and invincible. So are the mutants. They are fierce male warriors [...]

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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 [...]

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I just finished listening to Verner Vinge’s book “Rainbows End“. There were some things about this book which were very difficult to follow in audio, perhaps reading it would be easier. Overall it was an interesting portrayal of life in the near future when personal technology has become as useful as shoes and [...]

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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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A common theme in many of today’s scifi stories is one of desolation, typically a planet ruined by human activity, or a population which cannot be properly fed or sustained.
Where is the creative thinking which gave birth to our precious genre? Where are the hero scientists who learn to feed a million people per [...]

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Tor Books offers free science fiction downloads every week just for signing up. Not sure if they ever have science fiction short stories.
This week’s book is In the Midnight Hour by Patti O’Shea. The next book will be Battlestar Galactica by Jeffrey Carver.
They don’t appear to have a science fiction blog.

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