They’re about to start testing one in humans that has proved effective in non-human primates. keep your fingers crossed! This caught my eye because I wrote a book on Ebola a few years ago.
A nice little Amazon reader review of Marseguro:
One D. Raymond of Weld County, Colorado, writes: This book was a good science fiction read. The author develops a couple of traditional themes, what it means to be human and colonizing a new world away from the politics of the old world. It has good action scenes, smarmy villains that you love to hate …
Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist is giving away Marseguro!
Didn’t win a copy of Marseguro in my own February give-aways? Now you’ve got another chance! Pat over at the excellent fantasy/SF review blog Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist is giving away a copy. Pop on over there to find out how you can enter! (And check back regularly…it really is a great blog.) Good luck!
Spinning straw into liquid gold
Download the audio version.Get my science column weekly as a podcast. Rumplestiltskin, in the famous fairy-tale, has the knack of spinning straw into gold. We can’t do that–but we are learning to spin straw into something just about as valuable: biofuel. Sure, you can make ethanol out of corn or wheat, but in a hungry …
Nice blog review of Marseguro…
…from Ian over at Marturia.net. Highlights: The book is well-plotted, the action and reveals flow nicely along, keeping the reader interested…The ethical dilemmas presented echo those of Lost In Translation – racism, prejudice, tolerance, violence as a means to an end, fanaticism – but are put in play in such a way that the reader …
Happy birthday to someone you never heard of, but really should know…
…painter and poet Josef Čapek, born on this date in 1887. Nope, I never heard of him either until today, but Scott Edelman explains why he matters: Because Josef was the older brother to Karel Čapek, the author of the 1921 play “R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots),” in which the term “robot” was introduced. And contrary …
Good review for Marseguro at Fantasybookspot
A new review of Marseguro has just popped up at Fantasybookspot, and it’s a good one: they gave it 8/10. Highlights: Portraying people at their worst and their best, this book challenges readers to revisit their first impressions…Characters face issues of nature vs. nurture, the effects of bullying and the deep seated threads of prejudice, …
Spirit Singer available for Kindle
My YA fantasy novel Spirit Singer (Awe-Struck), winner of the Regina Book Award for best book by a Regina author at the 2002 Saskatchewan Book Awards, and also winner of a 2002 Dream Realm Award (young adult category) for excellence in e-publishedscience fiction, fantasy and horror and winner of the 2002 EPPIE Award for best …
Surprised by joy
Over at my main website I’ve got quite a few arts columns archived from my brief stint as a columnist for inRegina.com. A lot of them were about long-passed events, but a few are more general, and every now and then I may pop one up here, like I did the column about art and …
R.I.P. Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke has died at age 90. He was the last surviving member of the “Big Three” of science fiction: Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein having gone on before. Those were names to conjur with when I was a kid, and they’re among the primary reasons I write SF today. I regret I …
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Mind-reading machines
Download the audio version.Get my science column weekly as a podcast. I’m a hard-line skeptic when it comes to the topic of ESP (extra-sensory perception). I don’t believe in telepathy, precognition, telekinesis, or people bending flatware just by looking at it. That said, I’m pretty confident that in the near future mind-reading will be possible. …
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