Stargate Universe blends wonder, science and the nearly mystical unknown with great storytelling. Worth watching even though the series is done. [Continue]

My mouse Blossom was quite the good-spirited trooper and universal companion to all. She fought till the end. This is an homage to her, and a video of her last days. [Continue]

Now Fall, nearly Winter - creative change happening. During the winter I percolate in a really big way. Let the metaphysics begin! [Continue]

Here we go again: another asteroid passing very close to earth. This one, YU55, is set to shoot past Earth and Moon on 11/8/11. Don't worry, though: we're not imitating a disaster movie this time around. [Continue]

Mad Men's Sally Draper watched spies on tv, and so did I - same shows, same year, same kind of tv. And that's where Forbidden Planet's Anne Francis first inspired me: as the kick-ass P.I. Honey West in 1965. [Continue]

Author Deborah Teramis Christian announces planned site revisions, updates on work in progress, and her short story Live Fire accepted into the No Man's Land military science fiction anthology. [Continue]

Caldwell wrote the Romance of Atlantis when she was 12, based on a series of vivid dreams about Atlantis. It is a sophisticated work finally published 60 years later. [Continue]

Bot book club reading pick: Maracot Deep, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1929 exploration of Atlantis. [Continue]

My new "Book of the Month Club", aka "What's Bot Reading Now?," is inspired by my sister: one non-fiction book pick a month, then 3 novels that deal with that same topic in fiction. Our inaugural book is about archaeology and Atlantis. Readers' [Continue]

In which white Teramis remembers her roots of color and black family offshoots, and - inspired by Rosa Parks and Angela Bassett - joins the NAACP. [Continue]