How the Genre Community Restored My Faith in Humanity
On January 10th, Catherine Schaffer and Mary Robinette Kowal organized a fundraiser to raise money for a genome sequencing procedure for fellow writer, Jay Lake. Lake, as you might know, has been battling cancer for years, and recently received some terrible news about his future. Having this procedure done could very well suggest new treatments […]
Cloning Myself?
Would you clone yourself if you have the opportunity to do so? I sometimes think it would be strange to clone myself (the scifi kind of cloning, where clones are literal, full-grown copies). What kind of strange conversations would we have? Would we each develop differently over time so that the only resemblance between us […]
Airport Shuffle — Or, Hey, Airports in X-Files are Weird Places
I’ve been re-watching X-Files lately and it dawned on me how strange the world looked back then. For example, in one of the 1st season episodes (“E.B.E.”), Scully walks right into an airport terminal and purchases two tickets (one with her credit card and one with cash). The desk lady says to her “You can […]
What Star Trek Desperately Needs
I’m currently enjoying Enterprise, one of the least-liked of the various Star Trek incarnations. I won’t say that Enterprise is the worst of the lot; in many ways, it has the great adventure and anthological introspection commonly found in everything from Star Trek to The Next Generation to Voyager (and, I suppose, DS9 — my least favorite). Yet […]