I’m thrilled to announce that I’m up for two Aurora Awards this year! Fireboy is on the ballot for Best Young Adult Novel, and The Worldshapers is once again on the ballot for Best Fan …
I spent a good chunk of today at Wordbridge, the annual writers’ conference in Lethbridge, Alberta. My main reason for coming was to launch a Shadowpaw Press title (Broken Realm by Jenna Greene, a Lethbridge …
This is Easter weekend; last weekend, I sang in the Easter concert of First Baptist Church here in Regina as a guest soloist and chorister. The whole concert is worth listening to, but if you’d …
I put a link to this in the previous post on my Aurora-eligible work for 2025, but wanted to highlight it. This was my contribution to the Shapers of Worlds Volume V anthology, and it …
The Aurora Awards are Canada’s best-known science fiction and fantasy awards, voted on by fans every year. I’ve been fortunate enough to win twice, for Marseguro (DAW Books) (soon coming out in a new edition from Tuscany …
Put this under the category of “things I’ve meant to do for a long time”: I finally published (under my Endless Sky Books imprint) a new edition of The Haunted Horn, a modern-day middle-grade ghost …
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A quiet motorcyle is a good thing…or is it?
British engineers have produced a zero-emission motorcycle powered by a high-pressure hydrogen fuel cell that makes no more noise than your PC’s fan. (Probably less noise than mine, which I think will have to be replaced soon.)
Those who are not enamored of the ripping roar of an ordinary motorcycle may cheer the quietness of the new bike, but it could actually be a problem: not only are motorcycle riders unlikely to want to ride a quiet bike (since apparently being noisy is one of the things bikers enjoy about motorcycles–who knew?), but the bike is so quiet it might be a hazard to pedestrians, who couldn’t hear it coming.
I suggest a playing card attached to the frame with tape somewhere where the wheel spokes can constantly flip it…
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