It’s amazing how stories like this leap out at me since I wrote a novel set on an ocean world: The world’s first personal submarines have been launched with a price tag of £65,000. Dutch designers claim the subs will make owners feel like they are “flying through the water”. The one-seater version is 9ft …
D-Wave Systems Inc. says it will demonstrate it on February 13. But get this: This is the core of a new quantum computer to be unveiled by D-Wave Systems, says Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a leading venture-capital firm. “It is attached to a Leiden Cryogenics dilution fridge, ready to begin a …
This makes me happy.
Apparently the Brits do: People once said ‘you are what you eat’ but it appears the phrase has been hijacked by image-conscious Brits to state ‘you are what you read.’ So suggests new research from the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, which found almost half of people lie about their literary credentials. Joining in conversation …
A grand piano is a grand piano is a grand piano, at least in the looks department, right? Oh, sure, it might be white or red or black, but they all have roughly the same design. Not any more.The music of shape and the design of sound are created in the M. Liminal model, designed …
…before you do it. These findings also raise hope for improvement of clinical and technical applications. Already today the first steps are being made in easing the lives of paralyzed patients with computer-assisted prosthetic devices and so-called brain computer interfaces. These devices focus on reading out the movement the patient intends to – but is …
The SF Canada website, which I maintain, has just been updated for winter. We have an interview with agent Scott Hoffman, conducted by Celu Amberstone and a new bit of short fiction, “Aisles of the Blest,” by Leslie Carmichael. I also updated the membership list. Up-to-date information about the activities of the authors who make …
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If you want to know who won what when in the field of science fiction literature, then the Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards, newly updated, is the place to go. And if you’re interested in SF and don’t visit Locus Online regularly, you’re missing out. In fact, if you’re really interested in SF, especially …
…when you could have a boat like this? Another cool surface vessel I shoulda put in my new ocean-world SF story.
Joan Miller and I ask the musical question “How Can Love Survive?” during the final run-through for Regina Lyric Light Opera‘s musical fundraising brunch, With a Song in My Heart…the Music of Richard Rodgers, at the Hotel Saskatchewan Radisson Plaza Sunday morning. In the program I also perform two solos: “Some Enchanted Evening” and (ahem) …
The surface of our planet is nice and cool. (A little too cool, this time of year.) But not all that far beneath us, it’s anything but. In fact, says Chris Marone, Penn State professor of geosciences, enough heat emanates from the interior of the planet to make 200 cups of hot coffee per hour …
