“But I don’t understand,” Dahlia said, for the first time sounding like she actually believed the tale John had told them. Current word count: 35,429New words this session: 1,372Percentage of novel completed: 35.4 Talky stuff yesterday; action and a modicum of gore today.
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“Lights!” Dahlia yelled, as Emily, too terrified to even scream, scrambled out of bed and pressed her back against the wall at its head, as far away from the supine stranger as she could get. Current word count: 34,057New words this session: 2,138Percentage of novel completed: 34.0 And so we pass the one-third mark…yay!
This sounds important–and like a really good idea: A research team led by scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard announced today the development of a new kind of genetic “roadmap” that can connect human diseases with potential drugs to treat them, as well as predict how new drugs work in human cells….The …
It’s the Geek-a-Cycle–a stationary bike you pedal while you use the computer. It’s sad, but this could actually make sense for me… (Via Gizmodo.)
Gershwin, that is. The 107th anniversary of George Gershwin’s birth was Tuesday. Power Line has a celebration. I’ll be celebrating Gershwin’s music myself this weekend. I’m part of Livingston Square, a Regina quartet (the other singers are Evan Purchase, Dianne Burrows and Carolyn Speirs; Alison Purdy is our accompanist), and this Sunday, October 1, we’re …
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Holly Phillips (that’s her in the foreground at left, at the World Science Fiction Convention in Toronto in 2003) has won the 2006 Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic for her collection of short stories In the Palace of Repose (Prime Books). The Sunburst Award is a prized and juried award that is …
…finally hit the market. For a cool $3,950 (U.S.) each.
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The journey to the deep-sea camping shelter passed uneventfully for Emily and Dahlia, as most sub journeys did, since Marcasero, so far as anyone had yet determined, was entirely free of “sea monsters” (or any underwater lifeform larger than, say, an old-Earth grouper) and even the most violent surface storm couldn’t roil the water to …
To most people, “cobalt bomb” sounds like some super-powerful weapon of mass destruction. Tell them the first cobalt bomb was built and tested right here in Saskatchewan, and they’ll wonder what kind of crazed conspiracy theorist you are. But the first cobalt bomb was indeed built and first tested here, 55 years ago–and far from …
