Ty over at Logical Misanthropy (great name!) gives a “mini-review” of Dusk Before the Dawn: A fascinating mixture of mysticism, nanotechnology and martial arts. The book reminded me a bit of King’s “The Stand,”...
I know without a doubt the motivation of the gent who purloined 450 kegs of beer from the Guinness Brewery in Dublin. The old myth is that whenever you want to get a technical...
With all of the retro cool analog phone sets and other low-tech gear on Battlestar Galactica, FTL (faster than light) drive not withstanding I was beginning to get the impression that the whole thing...
T-Mac came back from a strained elbow, but it took three games before the Rockets stopped their losing streak at six with a 109-81 shellacking of the Denver Nuggets. McGrady had 35, Yao had...
The US-USSR space race re-imagined, with historical fiction combined with a near-future earth on the brink; a great read, not just for NASA fans or sci-fi fans, but all readers. This book combines an...
Did someone say “flashback”? A win at Charlotte to start the week, then the loss of a winnable game at Memphis that starts the current four game skid, with Dallas coming up on Wednesday....
A research paper and personal journal covering the possibility of a world consciousness and psyche evolution on-going, and building up to the near future. Daniel Pinchbeck covers a lot of ground in this sometimes...
Since I might be slightly too old to be an astronaut (although the specs don’t rule me out for degree, corrected eyesight, height or resting blood pressure!), another cool job would be to virtually...
The week started off in “flashback” fashion, as the Rockets went to Dallas, showed some promise, and then failed to close the deal. Just like in several games last year, most notably the playoffs,...
A self-correcting space-time continuum meets British sarcasm and pomposity, with a little love thrown in. Winner of the Hugo award in 1997, Ms. Willis’ novel had been recommended to me from several different people...
