I watched this thrilling sci fi movie while on a plane over the ocean, and the turbulence really added to the tense feel of it. Sandra Bullock and George Clooney play astronauts working on repairing the Hubble telescope, when an accident sends them into a dire situation. There is a kind of deep, uneasy fear …
Pluto!
It's been all over the news and social media for the past few days, but in case you haven't heard somehow, the New Horizons probe has taken some amazing pictures of Pluto, after nearly a decade of travel and three billion miles. Distances like this are so hard to grasp, the numbers are just so huge …
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 …
Europa
NASA's budget for 2016 was announced on Monday, and within the 18.5 billion they received, is 30 million specifically for a robotic mission to Europa. Europa has always been the hot spot for the possibility of life in our solar system, and now we may be able to catch a glimpse of anything living beneath …
Jonas David 