Happy Happy Sci Fi
I’ve often wondered why it is that most of the serious science fiction being written today–and by this I mean SF that is taking itself seriously–takes a gloomy approach to imagining the future. I’m not the only one either; Damien Walter over at the Guardian wonders much the same thing. But Walter proposes we shouldn’t […]
Query Project: Real Queries From Real Authors
SF Novelists has a post with links to various queries from SF/F authors. Not sure what more to say other than that, but if you want to know how the pros do it, then you should go there and check it out. I mean it. These are real queries. You can learn how to do […]
Video Found: Large Hardon Rap
It’s been all over the interwebs as of late and I finally took a moment to listen/watch it…and I have something to say:At this point I don’t really care if the LHC blows up the world, because this video is the coolest video package of scientific geekdom since Bill Nye the Science Guy was rocking […]
The Terminator Movies: Why the robots lost…badly.
I’ve been watching the first and third Terminator films the last couple of days and something occurred to me as to why the robots–from the future, of course–always lose: they’re not very smart robots.Let’s face it, the robots of the future didn’t exactly choose the “calm” approach to getting things done. The first Terminator was […]
Spectra Pulse Magazine?
I have a question for you all. Do you know anything about the Spectra Pulse Magazine? I was recently at Borderlands and discovered this free issue (the premiere issue for 2008 apparently) and decided to pick it up because it sounded interesting…and it was. In fact, I want to get more of it. It’s really […]
Ten SF Technologies/Ideas I Think Won’t Come True
The title says it all. I’ve already done a post of ten ideas that I think will come true that are from science fiction, so now for the things that I think won’t come true. Some of these are on this list because they are scientific impossibilities, and others are here because I believe that […]