Time for the new year! I'm sure I had some writing resolutions last year, but I don't remember what they were. I think something crazy like submit 100 stories, or something. If you hadn't noticed, I haven't been submitting many stories anymore. I got so tired of the long wait, that I pretty much will …
Cyborgs on the horizon
As the world of sci fi continues to invade real life, this week a double amputee was able to control two robotic arms simultaneously using only his mind. These are arms he was wearing on his body, walking around with, with no wires leashing him to a nearby computer or anything like that. These are …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Jonas David 