I have a story set in a far future in which all record of humanity has been lost. A  collective intelligence compiling […]

Elon Musk is famously aiming for a private expedition to Mars a decade earlier than the most likely government-financed trip. Planetary Resources […]

In the March/April issue of Analog C. Stuart Hardwick presents an analysis (Taming the Genie: How Fear of the Atom Threatens our […]

There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Wm. Shakespeare I’ve been seeing a […]

I am still collecting rejections but I have six stories out for review at various magazines. The most interesting rejections have come […]

I read today an essay from The New Yorker that said the 20th century railroads made the mistake of thinking they were […]

A while ago I met an astronaut. He had given a presentation about flying the space shuttle at a meeting I had […]

This morning Elon Musk announced that his Falcon heavy rocket has succeeded in boosting a Tesla roadster into the Asteroid Belt. This […]

In the absence of any other model, it is currently fashionable to posit that consciousness and intelligence “emerge” out of the complexity […]

In an earlier post, Inspiration, I mentioned how I came to consider a novel based on a revolution on Mars. This is […]