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New York Under Water: Sea Level Change This Century
Climate scientists now say a 2-meter rise in sea level is unstoppable. We’ve reached the tipping point, and have yet to begin to imagine the consequences. Part 1 of a 3-part series on sea level change and science fiction.
Torchwood, Sexuality, and American Media
Torchwood’s matter-of-fact use of gay sexuality this science fiction drama sets the bar for how mature entertainment should handle the subject. Why don’t we see this in American productions?
Eternal Youth and the Girl Who Doesn’t Age
Brooke Greenberg is a child who does not age. Her condition is unique, and baffles scientists. Many are interested in unraveling her “secret of eternal youth” – but should that occur, grave social changes may be in the offing.
Are We a Universe, or a Speck? – the Macrocosm Inside
Turns out the universe looks like a neural network. Oddly, this is reminiscent of a vision I had when I was 7. Cool stuff.
Slime Mold: great grand-daddy of Star Trek computers?
Scientists are experimenting with physarum polycephalum – slime mold – to establish the basic functions of bio-computing. That is to say, they are making programmable ‘machines’ out of slime mold, using its ameboid biostructure as a basic computing device. Shades of Star Trek Voyager’s bio-neural gelpacks!
Women who write military science fiction books
I’m a woman and a U. S. Army veteran. That puts me in a small class of authors who, like Elizabeth Moon and Sandra McDonald, have military experience and also write military science fiction.
McDonald’s and Moon’s works are intriguing – and unfortunately something I won’t read while I have a military sf book of my own in development.
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If you want to stay abreast of what I’m doing as an author, you might want to check out Warped Space, my new newsletter. It’s more focused and less frequent than my blog posts, concentrating on writing and related activities. Plus, there are freebies exclusively for mailing list members.
Writing with a split personality
I suppose it was inevitable. I get so immersed in my writing – must, because I “go there” and become part of these people, ride along with them like a ghost in the night or a spy-cam with night-vision – that I Become One With The Characters. It is long since a given that I [...]
