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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Termination shock confirmed
Voyager 1, scientists have confirmed, crossed the termination shock (a shock wave in the solar wind that marks its slowing from supersonic to subsonic speed) on December 16 and is now sending back the first information ever of the helisheath, a transition region at the edge of the solar system.
Voyager 1 is expected to reach the heliopause, the true edge of the solar system, sometime in the next eight to 10 years. After that, it will be the first manmade object to enter true interstellar space. Both it and Voyager 2 have enough electrical power and attitude control propellant to operate until 2020.
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