…I finished my Janis Joplin biography for Enslow Publishers Monday and emailed it in the same day. Yesterday was mostly a science column-and-revising-Untitled Science Fiction Novel day. More revising today (I’m up to about page 80 of almost 500–still a long way to go–and I’ve already added 3,000 words. Gulp.). Boring stuff like cleaning my …
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Scientists have successfully levitated small animals using sound waves.
Photo of the Day: The Looming Tree
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It’s déjà vu all over again
It’s the strangest mental phenomena most of us ever experience: the feeling that we’ve already done or seen something that we’re really doing or seeing for the first time. This week an interesting new aspect of the phenomenon came to light: for the first time, researchers have reported a case of a blind person experiencing …
An Orson Scott Card interview
The Glenn and Helen Show podcasts a long interview with Orson Scott Card, which naturally caught my eye…er, ear…since I recently wrote a biography of him. Card talks about his new book, Empire, which is about a new U.S. civil war, and about division in American politics. Warning: May raise your blood pressure if you …
Xerox re-invents paper
They’ve made it self-erasable (it fades in about a day) and re-usable.
Photo of the Day: Snowy Simplicity
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Why do people not read science fiction?
Carol Pinchefsky at Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show has some thoughts. It’s an interesting article all the way through, and I think she hits on some interesting possibilities, but I found it hard to finish, having run across this little fact part of the way down the page: The reasons are varied but inarguable …
Another nice review for Lost in Translation
Dr. Robert Runte, an Aurora Award-winning Canadian SF critic and commentator and former editor, has written a glowing review of Lost in Translation for Issue 11 of Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine, and was kind enough to send it along to me. Highlights: Edward Willett has been publishing nonfiction and award-winning SF for young adults through …
All the Nebula Award winners…in haiku!
What the title says. Find it here. (Via Science Fiction Book Club.) A taste: 1966 – Flowers for AlgernonThis book is good ifYou can avoid thinking ofPinky and the Brain. P.S. Not sure what the Nebula Awards are? They’re kind of like the Academy Awards of science fiction (by that analogy, the Hugos would be …
The party’s over…
…Betty Comden, of the great Broadway team Comden and Green, has died. Mark Steyn reprints an interview he did with her just a few years ago. UPDATE: And here’s Terry Teachout’s tribute to her, which includes a link to an (archived, and it’ll-cost-ya) profile of Comden and Green he wrote in 1999 for The New …
Photo of the Day: Grading, But Not on the Curve
Tonight I’m in Saskatoon, having just been the guest speaker at the annual awards night of the Consulting Engineers of Saskatchewan. I did a very quick (and humorously quippy!) slide show of some of the images from A Safe and Prosperous Future: 100 Years of Engineering and Geoscience Achievements in Saskatchewan. This is one of …
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