Hell No We Won’t Go (To Mars)

While perusing my Google Reader I found an article over at Futurismic that linked to an article at Universe Today, the likes of which surprised me because I had missed it. I was immediately stunned. Why? Because the article talks about a former NASA engineer’s idea that our first Mars mission should be a one-way […]

Should SF Be More Optimistic?

You should all be reading Futurismic by the way. It’s a wonderful blog with a lot of great articles, such as the one I’m about to talk about.Mr. Raven recently wrote about SF being so dismal and depressing and whether or not it should try to be a little more optimistic. While I agree on […]

Waste, Recycling, and Space: Where Are Our Recycling Robots?

What is the world’s ugliest building? Esquire says it’s the Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea. The interesting thing about the hotel is that it’s only ugly because it’s not finished, but if you finished it and get it a nice color and flashy lights it could very well be the coolest hotel outside of Las […]

SF/F Links: February Roundup Part Two

(My apologies to anyone who was trying to get to the post via the “Read More”. It wasn’t working for some reason. Now it should be. Thanks for your patience.) Alright, time for part two of this month’s link roundup (click the read more): La Gringa over at The Swivet is officially a literary agent. […]

Controlling the Weather: Stupidity in a Pretty Box

(Edit: Helps if I spell “controlling” correctly)A relatively recent article over at io9 presented the reality that we are already fiddling with the weather, which seems to me to be somewhat of a stupid thing to do. That’s right, we’re actually messing around with the natural order of the Earth. Now, setting aside that we’ve […]

Studying Science Fiction Politics: Perhaps

I’m considering doing an independent study course next quarter. My reasoning is this: I already have to take one course that is required that I really don’t care about and since the number of modern literature courses offered (seeing how I’m a modern lit major) are rather crappy, I don’t want to have to take […]