I just finished the Xenogenesis Trilogy by Octavia E. Butler, and am somewhat shocked that I've not heard of her before now. After reaching the last page and hearing the narrator say 'first published in 1989' I was even more startled. How have I gone most of my life without hearing about this series or author, …
Planets… Everywhere!
NASA just announced the discovery of over 1200 new planets, doubling the number of confirmed exo-planets. This number, I'm sure, will continue to grow at an exponential rate as our technology improves, until counting planets in exact numbers becomes as pointless as trying to count the exact number of stars. It's looking more likely every …
Iapetus Shift update
It is very near! The editing is finished and ready to go, and cover art is in the works! I expect it will be 'on the shelves' sometime next month. I am so excited to finally push the 'publish' button and send it out into the world. It's been almost four years since I finished …
Making Mistakes, an evolutionary advantage?
I was reading this article about the origins of multi-cellular life, and remembered a thought I had a while back. I was thinking about why we make mistakes. It seems strange, for example, when I'm typing this post out, that I several times hit wrong keys by mistake. Why do I do this? Why don't …
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Hyperion
I finished this amazing sci fi story a few weeks back, and am still thinking about parts of it. I thought I had read this before, because I had owned it as a teenager, but after the first few chapters I didn't remember any of it, and I think I may not have finished it because …
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