At 8:15 on the morning of 23 January 1960, Jacques Piccard and Lieutenant Don Walsh, US Navy, climbed into the pressure sphere of the bathyscaphe Trieste, and sealed the hatch. Less than ten minutes later, they were descending towards the floor of the Pacific Ocean, towards the floor of the deepest part of Pacific Ocean: Challenger Deep.

Challenger ( Read more... )

I promised myself that during August I'd have a go at writing a space opera - you know, a proper one, with giant spaceships, aliens, awesome weaponry... that sort of thing. Not just because I enjoy reading such stories and would like to write one of my own, but also because I could make it all up. I mean, what would I need to research? The laws of ( Read more... )

There's an interesting Mind Meld this week on SFSignal about "The Next Big Trend/Movement in SF/F Literature". You can find it here. I noticed that my jetpunk (see here) doesn't get a mention - although it has here in a post by Dr Nader Elhefnawy, which I suppose means it's sort of arrived...

To be honest, jetpunk wasn't an entirely serious ( Read more... )