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 …
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 …
Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss
I just finished this epic fantasy novel (on Audible) a few days ago, and am overall unimpressed and a bit irritated. Right from the start of the book I knew I was in trouble, when during an action sequence he describes a character falling by saying he 'began to fall' and what he saw on …
Interstellar
I watched this cerebral sci fi flick over the weekend and I have to say it lived up to my expectations. In the near future, a global blight has taken out Earth's crops, and the remains of NASA plan to send the population to a new planet by traveling through a wormhole. The pilot, Cooper, …
