Looking like something straight out of a science fiction movie, Troy Hurtubise, the Hamilton-area inventor of the bulky bear-protection suit that got a lot of attention a few years ago, is back with a high-tech (yet remarkably cheap, at $15,000 for the prototype) battle suit he’d like to see the military and police adopt. The …
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Nebula Awards preliminary ballot announced
The Preliminary Ballot for the Nebula Awards® for 2006 have been announced. If the Hugo Awards, voted on my members of the World Science Fiction Convention each year, are science fiction’s equivalent of the People’s Choice Awards (which are on TV tonight, I just learned. Who knew? Oh, I suppose people who watch any TV …
Planetary defense for dummies?
Did you know there’s a book called An Introduction to Planetary Defense: A Study of Modern Warfare Applied to Extra-Terrestrial Invasion? I didn’t! I hope it doesn’t involve Will Smith as a fighter pilot and a computer virus that somehow infects completely alien computer systems… (Via Instapundit.)
What should I call my new novel?
I didn’t get any comments in response to my posted question about possible titles, so let’s try…a poll! Besides, I’ve been dying to have a poll on my blog just like all the other bloggers. (Peer pressure: not just for high school any more!) So vote: What title should I put on my new book? …
Book turned in!
Well, now I’ve done gone went and done it… I turned in my new science fiction novel, now tentatively titled Marseguro, to Sheila Gilbert at DAW Books today. Final word count: 106,548. Final page count: 506. No rest for the wicked: I’ve got other books deadlines and more proposals to pull together. But may I …
What’s in a name?
*Sigh*. Attempting to finish the final review of my new SF novel so I can submit it to Sheila Gilbert at DAW Books this week. Just discovered the name of my planet does not mean what I thought it did. Had to change the name of the planet. (It’s now Marseguro, which means “safe sea” …
What does the future hold?
No one knows. But science fiction writer David Brin does an excellent job of summing up the possibilities in “Singularities and Nightmares: Extremes of Optimism and Pessimism about the Human Future.” It’s a long read, but well worth it. (Via Instapundit.)
Which science fiction writer are you?
Well, I’m Edward Willett, of course, but according to the quiz in question, I am: Robert A. Heinlein Beginning with technological action stories and progressing to epics with religious overtones, this take-no-prisoners writer racked up some huge sales numbers. Which science fiction writer are you? Which ain’t bad.
December 20: Deadline!
For those who recall (what? you didn’t take notes?) that today is the deadline for my new novel for DAW to be turned in, and are wondering whether I in fact made the deadline, the answer is…yes and no. Yes, I wrote the book and just this morning reached THE END on the revision. So …
How many novels do you have to write before you sell one?
To find out, SF writer Tobias S. Buckell ran an entirely unscientific but still illuminating poll at his blog, and has posted the results. Here’s the core: 32% wrote one novel13% wrote two11% wrote 38% wrote 49% wrote 53% wrote 613% wrote 7 or more novels6% wrote some short fiction first5% wrote a ton of …
"Researchers demonstrate direct brain control of humanoid robot"
Not only that, the story references science fiction, so I don’t have to. Here’s how it works: The controlling individual – in this case a graduate student in Rao’s lab – wears a cap dotted with 32 electrodes. The electrodes pick up brain signals from the scalp based on a technique called electroencephalography. The person …
If Astana, Kazakhstan, can do it…
…why can’t Regina, Saskatchewan? Heck, if you squint, the two names are practically identical. “It,” in this case, is cover 100,000 square metres of downtown space with a giant, semi-transparent, climate-controlled tent. (Shades of the domed cities so beloved of old-time science fiction writers.) To whit: The Khan Shatyry entertainment centre in Astana will become …
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