When I was a kid, a missed several weeks of Grade 5 (I think it was) because I was suffering from rheumatic fever. I wish I’d had one of these.
“British men have worst sex lives, Canadians the best.”
Orbital gas jockey.
That’s one hypothesis to explain the mysterious blood-red particles that fell in rainshowers across northern India in 2001: they could be microbes adapted to living in outer space who rode a meteor into the atmosphere and were scattered through rainclouds when the meteor broke apart.
More photos here.
I’ve mentioned that I’ve been working on a couple of synopses for possible novels (one a sequel to Lost in Translation, one completely new) for submission to my agent, Ethan Ellenberg. I finally polished those up and sent them off yesterday, and had a phone call this morning–he likes them! Keep your fingers crossed for …
…is about to reveal more of its secrets, thanks to Multi-Spectral Imaging, a technology I wrote about here.
The answer to an age-old mystery may have been found…though it awaits experimental evidence.
…or at least your picture, in Bigelow Aerospace‘s test inflatable space module, launching later this year. If all goes well with Genesis II, as the spacecraft is known, your picture or other memento will orbit the Earth for years, with on-board cameras streaming images of the floating conglomeration of stuff back to the ground for …
More photos here.
I’ve been remiss in not posting the Aurora Awards 2006 finalists for best Canadian science fiction and fantasy–but there they are now: Best Long-Form Work in EnglishMeilleur livre en anglais Migration (Species Imperative 2), Julie E. Czerneda (DAW Books, May/2005) Cagebird, Karin Lowachee (Warner Aspect, Apr/2005) Mindscan, Robert J. Sawyer (Tor, Apr/2005) Silences of Home, …
