NASA has plans for a Cloud City on Venus, seriously. Our nearest neighbor, Venus, is always ignored when it comes to explorations, probably because the surface is around 465C (870F). Venus is very similar to Earth otherwise, though, and is called Earth's twin. It's nearly identical in size and composition and gravity, we just can't …
Claw of the Conciliator, by Gene Wolfe
After Name of the Wind, this book was like a cool glass of water the morning after a night out. In my review of Shadow of the Torturer, the first book in this series, I said that the main driver of wanting to read the other books was learning more about the world, not so …
To Mars!
NASA had a successful test flight with the spacecraft Orion today. The craft they plan to use to send a manned mission to Mars sometime in the 2030's. It's so exciting to me that space exploration is getting such interest again. If we want to live among the stars, our first step is to live …
Go Beginnings
As you may or may not know, I've been obsessed with the board game 'go' for the past year or so. Posts about it seem somewhat out of place on this blog, though, so I've started a new blog for all my go thoughts. If you have any interest in complex board games like chess, …
Queen of Bones
I'm almost finished with my next pair of stories to be available on Kindle probably around the start of the year, possibly sooner. This time I'll be featuring one of my rare fantasy stories, about a couple of bounty hunters who end up teleporting to an unexpected location. Below is a preview to it, I …
Jonas David 