Well, now I’ve done gone went and done it… I turned in my new science fiction novel, now tentatively titled Marseguro, to Sheila Gilbert at DAW Books today. Final word count: 106,548. Final page count: 506. No rest for the wicked: I’ve got other books deadlines and more proposals to pull together. But may I …
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Alarming developments
I’m writing this on January 2, which means that, for more days than not over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been able to sleep in. But today, at 6:40 a.m., the alarm clock went off, and I staggered out of bed, a stumbling, half-blind example of the effects of sleep inertia (not that having …
Amazing microscopic photography…
…from Eye of Science, photographer Oliver Meckes and biologist Nicole Ottawa: As a two-person team of photographer and biologist, our aim is to combine scientific exactness with aesthetic appearances, and thereby help to bridge the gap between the world of science and the world of art. We are committed to the rigorous standards of scientific …
Photo of the Weekend: Contrasts
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To start 2007…
I’ve signed the American version of The Euston Manifesto. Perhaps you’d like to sign it, or the original, too? (Via BuzzMachine.) Happy New Year!
What’s in a name?
*Sigh*. Attempting to finish the final review of my new SF novel so I can submit it to Sheila Gilbert at DAW Books this week. Just discovered the name of my planet does not mean what I thought it did. Had to change the name of the planet. (It’s now Marseguro, which means “safe sea” …
Did you know there’s a Saskatchewan Provincial Paranormal Research Centre?
I didn’t…until now.
Test flying a 70-year-old airplane
A pilot (with a great sense of humour) gets his first chance to fly a DC3, more than 70 years after the famous aircraft first took to the skies. Today, decades later, scores are still in operation. My favorite line: I was much taken by the crew escape hatch on the left-hand fuselage side, just …
A manned mission to an asteroid?
It’s being seriously considered. There’s interest in asteroids for a range of reasons…for exploration, for pure science, resource utilization, as well as learning how to mitigate the threat from a sniping space rock that has its crosshairs on Earth. Neither Bruce Willis nor Clint Eastwood, I hasten to add, will be involved in any putative …
It’s the end of year as we know it, and I feel fine
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, when a columnist can fill his allotted space simply by looking back on everything he wrote about in the previous 365 (give or take) days. However, it would be too easy to simply look back at the columns that appeared in the newspaper. Instead, here is “the …
Photo of the (Yester)Day: Crystal Star
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My latest live walk and vlog
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