Ridley Scott's The Martian is an accurate, thrilling survival story that for ONCE portrays scientists as normal human beings (even cool, likable ones!), instead of amoral villains, sociopaths, socially crippled nerds, or emotionless robots. Problem solving is the hero of this edge-of-your-seat thriller, and realism is king. I don't have degree in any of the …
Novella
I've written one! Well, I wrote it nearly three years ago and am just now getting around to editing it--but! It is now nearly done, and I hope to have it out on Kindle by the end of the year. It's about a shape-shifting thief on Mars who is hired to kidnap a super-genius and …
The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut
The Sirens of Titan was clever, fun and charming, as is everything by Vonnegut that I've read. And it also says a lot about how the world works. The plot centers on Malachi Constant, son of the luckiest man on Earth, who invested in the stock markets using the Bible as a guide telling him …
Cloud City on Venus
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 …
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 …
Jonas David 