We move on to Chapter 2: Emily woke in the dark to confusion and a pounding headache.Words today: 1,330Total thus far: 4,930Percentage completed: 4.1
Tag: science fiction
The first sentence I wrote today…
…is not the sentence I’m going to post here, because I didn’t keep it. In fact, the sentence I wrote yesterday is already gone. See, I’d started this scene where my protagonist, Richard, looks around the briefing table and starts describing all his senior officers and…yawn…remembering all the…ho-hum…plot points from the previous…zzzzzz. Yeah, it even …
The first sentence I wrote today:
Richard Hansen settled himself into the thick blue upholstery of the chair at the head of the long, oval, gold-colored metal table, and looked around at his senior staff.Words today: 1,435Total thus far: 2,504Percentage completed: 2.09
Roboethics
Download the audio version.Get my science column weekly as a podcast. *** A couple of weeks ago I wrote about research aimed at making robot-human interactions more comfortable for humans. With more and more robots finding more and more uses in society, that kind of research is important. But there’s something else we’re going to …
Rise of the (giggling, dancing, punning) robots
Download the audio version.Get my science column weekly as a podcast. ***Robots were once science fiction: in fact, the word comes from the Czech word “robota,” meaning work, and originated in Karel Capek’s popular 1920 science-fiction play R.U.R. (for Rossum’s Universal Robots). These days, there are robot vacuum cleaners, lawn mowers and dogs, and all …
Aurora Awards announced
I’m back! I’ll post more about my exploits with the Canadian Chamber Choir (which is what kept me away from the computer and hence from this blog for the last week) soon, but in the meantime, let’s get things rolling forward again with this list of the Aurora Award winners for the best Canadian SF …
A quiz with only one possible answer
Q. Which former guest of honor at the World Science Fiction Convention (in 1987) went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature? A. Dorothy Lessing.
The full cover for my new novel, Marseguro…
…arrived via FedEx today, along with the page proofs which I must now carefully proofread and get back to DAW by October 26. Woo-hoo! Here’s the full cover: The blurb above the title reads “Can the hidden colony of Marseguro survive rediscovery?” And here’s the back copy: Marseguro, a water world far distant from Earth, …
Scientists do the work of SF writers…
…and make a list of some of the planets that may exist in other solar systems. I’ve posted about it at Futurismic. (Rather than copy my posts from there here, from now on I’ll just make a note when I post something over there–apparently the searchbots and webspiders don’t like duplicate content.)
Genetic modification of large animals just got easier
Efforts to genetically modify large animals have been hindered by the fact that the two methods currently used to effect it, somatic cell nuclear transfer or pronuclear injection, are costly, inefficient, difficult, and carry a risk of producing abnormal offspring. Now researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine have successfully produced genetically …
Guess who’s one of the new bloggers for Futurismic
Why, that would be me, thanks. What is Futurismic? I’ll let them answer that: Futurismic is a website for people interested in the future and the effects of science and technology on the present. Futurismic comes in three parts: the blog section consists of short, well-written, opinionated introductions to content that exists elsewhere on the …
A comic-book version of The War of the Worlds…
…is online at Darkhorse.com, free for the viewing! Much much better than that dreadful Spielberg/Cruise thing. (Via Drawn.)
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