Friday, November 05, 2010

Which Cover Do You Like Better?

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These are works in progress, so I know that the photoshopping is not perfect, but before the images are refined and the layers locked, I sho...
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Thursday, November 04, 2010

Erasing Memories

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According to a report in the Baltimore SUN on Tuesday, researchers at Johns Hopkins University have been working on deleting memories of fri...
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Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Worldbuilding With Fire And Ice Part II

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CAUTION: don't for a moment think that I'm a "Conservative" -- or for that matter "Progressive" or "Liberal...
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Sunday, October 31, 2010

Suspension Of Disbelief

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I've renewed my library book five times, so far. It's not exactly a "page-turner" and I'm starting to wonder why exact...
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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Presumed Dead?

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Here's a news article about an 89-year-old woman in our area who was mistakenly pronounced dead: Baltimore Sun In brief, neighbors calle...
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Worldbuilding with Fire and Ice Part I Failure of Imagination Part IV

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Worldbuilding with Fire and Ice Part I Failure of Imagination Part IV Politics is surely fire, especially in the run-up to an Election. ...
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Sunday, October 24, 2010

Cuckoos

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So, you want to take over a world. Are you sure? It's been done. No point reinventing the wheel. Assuming that you have identified a sui...
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Washington Watch This

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You may have noticed heated discussions about "COICA" This is what it is: S.3804 -- Combating Online Infringement and Counterfe...
Friday, October 22, 2010

Teens, Trekkies, and Heroic Ideal

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I remember back when I was just a reader I thought authors knew everything about their worlds and how they worked.   Naturally, authors who’...
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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Technology Predictions

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There's an article in the fall issue of the Phi Beta Kappa newsletter called "The Manifold Problems of Technology Forecasting,...
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Glenn Beck Didn't Invent The Overton Window

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It's OK if you don't want to read this because it's polluted with Glenn Beck. But this is about a novel written entirely for c...
Sunday, October 17, 2010

Splatterpunk and "DRACULAS"

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What does "Horror" have to do with "alien romances"? Not much! However, some Horror straddles other genres, such as spe...
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Thursday, October 14, 2010

The Value of Wolves

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An intriguing angle on the benefits of restoring wolves to Yellowstone National Park: Wolves Here's the article's summary of the fas...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Genetic Mechanism By Which Love Conquers All

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Looking for an article posted online because I had browsed it in a waiting room in a paper copy of DISCOVER magazine, I got stuck reading th...
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