…you read a headline that says: “‘Half Life’ returns for CanStage season,” and you wonder who will be playing the part of Gordon Freeman.
Paging Superman…
A new optical effect created in a London laboratory may someday render solid objects transparent, providing a new way to look at bones or find earthquake victims.
Margaret Atwood, "of Canadian Sci-Fi author fame"
Margaret Atwood will unveil her invention, the LongPen, which will purportedly allow authors to sign books for fans long-distance via a robotic hand that emulates the movement of the author’s real hand, at the London Book Fair in a couple of weeks. I seriously doubt it will catch on, but whether it does or not, …
Aurora Award nominations now open!
The Aurora Award nominations are now open. The Auroras honor the best Canadian science fiction and fantasy of the year. Anyone who is a Canadian citizen or permanent resident may nominate; you can find the nomination form here (in PDF format). It’s unseemly of me to mention it, perhaps, but may I point out that …
Sleep? We don’ need no steenkin’ sleep…
…or at least we won’t in a decade or two if this research succeeds in replacing eight hours of sleep a night with two.
Writing tips for non-writers
Author John Scalzi at Whatever offers some excellent “Writing Tips for Non-Writers Who Don’t Want to Work at Writing”–which also happen to be pretty good writing tips for pro writers, too. In particular, Scalzi’s tip about making sentences shorter struck home; just like Scalzi confesses to, I often use semi-colons to create long sentences that …
The 60th anniversary of ENIAC
In honor of the 60th anniversary of the world’s first practical all-electronic computer, ENIAC, which was unveiled on February 14, 1946, here’s a 1989 interview with ENIAC co-inventor J. Presper Eckert. (Via KurzweilAI.net.)
Publication date set for my Jimi Hendrix bio
I see a publication date has been set for my children’s biography of Jimi Hendrix: August. And it seems to have a title: Jimi Hendrix: Kiss the Sky. Cool!
Nice reader review for Genetics Demystified
Hey, looks like my book Genetics Demystified has picked up its first reader review at Amazon, and guess what? He liked it, he really liked it! Says TheBookGuy: This was my first venture into the Demystified series, and it was just what I was looking for. I’m not a genetics engineer, if I was, I …
Canadians provide new Einstein solutions
This sounds really interesting: The new solutions may also add a better understanding of tachyons in String Theory. Tachyons correspond to unstable higher energy states in String Theory. Clarkson and Mann’s solutions are perturbatively the lowest-energy states in their asymptotic class, meaning that the two may have found what could possibly be the ground state …
A baby step toward a space elevator…
…in Arizona.
Mass-market paperback for Lost in Translation!
It looks like my science fiction novel Lost in Translation is going to be coming out in mass-market paperback from DAW Books! I had a phone call to that effect this morning from Martin H. Greenberg and John Helfers at Tekno Books, which packaged Lost in Translation for Five Star. This is absolutely terrific news. …
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