Well, I did it again: led the Seven-Sentence Short Story workshop (created by science fiction and fantasy author James van Pelt) at a writing conference, this time, Wordbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. Here’s the story I …
It’s time for this year’s Kickstarter to fund Shapers of Worlds Volume V, the fifth in the series of anthologies featuring science fiction and fantasy by authors who were guests on my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The …
It takes money to publish books, and most of that money flows out the door before the book is released and sales begin, so my publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, is turning to Crowdfundr to help …
Shapers of Worlds Volume IV, the fourth anthology featuring authors who were guests on my podcast, The Worldshapers, is now available everywhere, including directly from Shadowpaw Press. Here’s a handy universal URL with links to …
My publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, has three great titles coming out in the first two months of 2024, all of them science fiction or fantasy. The first two, The Good Soldier by Nir Yaniv and …
Here’s another seven-sentence short story! I ran the workshop again at Ganbatte, an anime convention in Saskatoon. It went well, and here’s the one I created, again with the instructions, created by noted SF short-story …
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SF reference of the week…
Dr. Who lives,: as demonstrated by the name given these cool crystals:
[2] Materials: TARDIS crystals (pp523-527)
Scientists have made the roomiest crystals ever, according to a report in this week’s Nature.
Omar M. Yaghi and colleagues claim that each gram of the new material has an internal surface area equivalent to about 17 tennis courts, easily beating the previous record by a good five courts.
Crystals that are riddled with holes are useful for speeding up chemical reactions, or storing gas. The scientists found that their crystals soaked up molecules like a sponge, and believe that their method can be fine-tuned to make even more absorbent materials, potentially useful for storing the gas used by hydrogen-powered cars.”
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