Thanks to Thomas Gill of North Central College, I have enhanced my previous entry with a few photos.

(Yes, I do actually have an Egoboo File. It's in the basement.)

Gary Westfahl of the University of California at Riverside, a science fiction critic whose work I have often admired, quoted our 1977 filksong "Home on Lagrange" in his 1996 book Islands in the Sky: The Space Station Theme in Science Fiction Literature. This I learned because there ( Read more... )

I'll be speaking next Tuesday at North Central College in downtown Naperville, Illinois. As part of the International Year of Astronomy celebrations, NASA has encouraged institutions across the U.S. to hold "unveilings" of a new image of our galaxy's center. Here's the press release for the event. Quoting a portion:

Oesterle Library displays new ( Read more... )