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He likes it! He really likes it!
I’ve mentioned that I’ve been working on a couple of synopses for possible novels (one a sequel to Lost in Translation, one completely new) for submission to my agent, Ethan Ellenberg. I finally polished those up and sent them off yesterday, and had a phone call this morning–he likes them! Keep your fingers crossed for …
Europe’s oldest book…
…is about to reveal more of its secrets, thanks to Multi-Spectral Imaging, a technology I wrote about here.
Why water freezes faster after heating
The answer to an age-old mystery may have been found…though it awaits experimental evidence.
Send yourself into orbit…
…or at least your picture, in Bigelow Aerospace‘s test inflatable space module, launching later this year. If all goes well with Genesis II, as the spacecraft is known, your picture or other memento will orbit the Earth for years, with on-board cameras streaming images of the floating conglomeration of stuff back to the ground for …
Photo of the Day: Glass, Light and Dark
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Aurora Award finalists
I’ve been remiss in not posting the Aurora Awards 2006 finalists for best Canadian science fiction and fantasy–but there they are now: Best Long-Form Work in EnglishMeilleur livre en anglais Migration (Species Imperative 2), Julie E. Czerneda (DAW Books, May/2005) Cagebird, Karin Lowachee (Warner Aspect, Apr/2005) Mindscan, Robert J. Sawyer (Tor, Apr/2005) Silences of Home, …
Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you…
A Japanese scientist has recreated the Mona Lisa’s voice.
Another staple of science fiction becomes reality
If I had a nickle for every time someone in a science fiction story “opaqued the windows” at the touch of a button, or did something equivalent, instead of drawing old-fashioned drapes, I’d…well, I’d have quite a few nickles. Now electronic drapes have become reality. UPDATE: Technovelgy.com has the lowdown on an early SF reference …
Photo of the Day: The Tower
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A very cultured food
For the first couple of decades of my life, I didn’t know what yogurt was, nor could I understand why anyone would eat it. For a large swath of the world, this probably would have marked me as a barbarian, because yogurt has been eaten and enjoyed for a very, very, very long time. In …
Crib sheet on Christianity for confused secularists:
From holyoffice: “The time has come for some kind of crib sheet for the confused and frightened, a handy, easy-to-use reference guide for identifying some of the key denominations, terms, and concepts in Christianity.” Which he then goes on to provide. Hilarious!
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