Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Thursday, May 01, 2025

RavenCon 18

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RavenCon occurred this past weekend in a hotel near Richmond, Virginia. The weather was a bit weird for Virginia in late April. While the da...
Thursday, December 05, 2024

Welcome to the Future

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Recommended for fans and writers of near-future science fiction: YOU CALL THIS THE FUTURE? THE GREATEST INVENTIONS SCI-FI IMAGINED AND SCIEN...
Thursday, January 14, 2021

Sufficiently Advanced Technology

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As we know, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" (Arthur C. Clarke). Conversely, many magical ev...
Saturday, November 28, 2020

Science Fiction

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Killing people --or threatening them with a horrible death-- has been a time-honored means of suppressing inconvenient truths and fictions...
Thursday, March 26, 2020

Science in SF, Continued

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The second part of Kelly Lagor's LOCUS article on "Putting the 'Science' in Science Fiction" is here: Putting the Sc...
Thursday, January 30, 2020

Science in SF

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A LOCUS article by Kelly Lagor discusses how accurate the science in science fiction needs to be: Putting the Science in Science Fiction ...
Thursday, January 23, 2020

Anticipating Androids

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In Mary Shelley's novel, Victor Frankenstein apparently constructed his creature by stitching together parts of cadavers. (His first-per...
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Worldbuilding From Reality Part 10 Does It Matter If Arousal Is Gender Specific?

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Worldbuilding From Reality Part 10 Does It Matter If Arousal Is Gender Specific?  Previous parts in the Worldbuilding From Reality se...
Thursday, September 26, 2019

Animal Minds

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I recently read two books by ethologist Frans de Waal, ARE WE SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW HOW SMART ANIMALS ARE? and MAMA'S LAST HUG, respectiv...
Thursday, August 01, 2019

3D-Printed Organs

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3D printing is now being used as an aid to cardiac surgery. The printers don't yet make actual replacement hearts. What they do is use i...
Thursday, June 13, 2019

Inside Apollo

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The June 2019 issue of SMITHSONIAN magazine includes a long article on little-known aspects of the Apollo lunar exploration project. Unfortu...
Thursday, June 06, 2019

Beliefs, Facts, and Action

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Sometimes it doesn't matter whether one has accurate beliefs about facts as long as one's beliefs have a correct or useful effect in...
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Theme-Worldbuilding Integration Part 20 - Why Love Matters

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Theme-Worldbuilding Integration Part 20 Why Love Matters  Previous parts in Theme-Worldbuilding are indexed here: https://alien...
Thursday, September 27, 2018

Biology Marches On

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I'm currently reading, little by little, a book by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins (best known for THE SELFISH GENE), THE ANCESTO...
Tuesday, June 05, 2018

Theme Element Giving And Receiving Part 2 Science of Science Fiction by Jacqueline Lichtenberg

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Theme Element Giving And Receiving Part 2 Science of Science Fiction by Jacqueline Lichtenberg Part 1 is here: http://aliendjinnr...
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