My young-YA/middle-grade fantasy Fireboy, a nominee for Best Young Adult Novel in this year’s Aurora Awards, is also a finalist for the 2027 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award in the Northern Lights Division. This is …
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 …
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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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