Cassini discovers a new ring around Saturn and possibly two new moons–just the first of many interesting discoveries to come, I’ll bet.
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Aurora Award finalists announced
The finalists for this year’s Aurora Awards, for the best Canadian science fiction and fantasy, have been announced. I am not, alas, among them, but just for interest’s sake, here they are: Best Long-Form Work in English Meilleur livre en anglais * Hidden in Sight, Julie E. Czerneda * Burndive, Karin Lowachee * Humans, Robert …
Writing Diary: September 8, 2004
I put Memory Jam and Threads into the mail today, and made some more progress on Razor Wind. Tomorrow: a couple of proposals to get finished, one for a writer-in-residence program, one for a history of Saskatchewan engineering. No rest for the wicked!
Solar wind capsule crashes
This is heartbreaking. It must feel like a mugging to the scientists involved.
Belated Writing Diary: September 7, 2004
Yes, I know it’s actually September 8, but I posted this last night, except, for some reason, Blogger choked on it and it never appeared. So, briefly: reworked “Threads,” the story I wrote based on the play I wrote for Globe Theatre‘s On the Line event a couple of years ago, and wrote my science …
Panspermia revisited
Did life originate on Earth or did it arrive here from outer space? Mainstream biologists will tell you the former. But over the years, the latter idea has always had a few supporters. This theory that life came to Earth from elsewhere is usually called panspermia (which means “seeds everywhere.”) It has a Greek name …
Bloomin’ reactors
Nuclear reactors that are inherently safe, cheap to build, and can be used to produce hydrogen for fuel…what’s not to like?
Reading Diary: September 5, 2004
I’ve been plugging away, without much enthusiasm, at Bedlam’s Bard by Mercedes Lackey and Ellen Guan. While I enjoy the book’s notion of elves in L.A., the writing itself–and the characters–haven’t really taken off for me. There’s way, way, WAY too much direct quoting of characters’ thoughts, most of it unnecessary and, to me, at …
Cold fusion lives!
Cold fusion may be on the verge of regaining respectability. Cool! (Er…cold…)
Flying Triangle sightings on the rise
Noted without comment: sightings of mysterious, silent and huge aircraft are on the rise. Make of it what you will.
Writing Diary: September 2, 2004
A slow day today; I’m not entirely sure where it went. I had to conduct an audition this morning for We’ll Meet Again, the revue of World War 2 songs I’m directing for Regina Lyric Light Opera, which somehow seemed to wipe out the whole morning, even though it really only took 10 minutes. This …
Successful solar sail ‘speriment
Okay, the alliteration is a bit strained, but the research is cool: NASA scientists have successfully deployed a solar sail system in a large vacuum chamber, a critical milestone in the effort to develop this new–and very romantic to an old Swallows and Amazons reader like me–space propulsion technology. As Cap’n Nancy would say, “Jibbooms …
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