~Now that The Sisterhood has been placed on the back burner by La Rona, I have needed something else to preserve what little sanity I still manage cling to. That has emerged in the form a science fiction novel titled "The Refugees". Here's a draft 'book jacket blurb':

It is 1978 and a small group of alien refugees flee from an ever expanding ( Read more... )

..from Oct. 26th, 2008 at 10:28 PM, with a slight edit..

..this is a comment I made in a friends LJ.."I have come to the conclusion that The Great Experiment of Mass Democracy has failed. It has taken me a few decades to be willing to admit such an outcome, but it has been driven home to me over the past half dozen years ( Read more... )

Originally posted by boingboing_net at Every episode of every Star Trek series ever, ranked

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/uwowPv-oaEk/every-episode-of-every-star-tr.html

http://boingboing.net/?p=353845


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Originally posted by wiredtopstories at From 53 kilobytes of RAM in 1953

http://feeds.wired.com/c/35185/f/661370/s/3f0e2e4f/sc/4/l/0L0Swired0N0C20A140C10A0C530Ekilobytes0Eram0E19530C/story01.htm

http://www.wired.com/?p=1582111


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Originally posted by boingboing_net at Syd Mead on the helmet design Daft Punk nicked

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/9DvOHmbKwxo/syd-mead-on-daft-punk.html

http://boingboing.net/?p=335491

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~Early yesterday evening I woke up to one of my hated dizzy spells. I had one two or three months ago, which was the first time in about as many years ( Read more... )

~In Part Seven - “One Possible Future” I started the [still unfinished] opening story “A Single Step” about two plus years ago. It contains a number of 'tech features' in the beginning pages. A few days ago I realized that said 'tech features' are now hopelessly obsolete and I'm going to have to rewrite/up-date them. *sigh* Such is the life of a ( Read more... )

~I like watching Vegas and CSI back to back. That creates a truly profound Science Fiction experience. If CBS was really smart, they'd schedule them that way.

Nebs Sez: Read this. I mean REALLY FUCKING READ THIS!

September 7th, 2012 | Work

This is the raw text of the keynote I gave at Improving Reality on Thursday.  Thanks again to Honor and her crew for being so wonderful, and for so kindly inviting me.

HOW TO SEE THE FUTURE
Warren Ellis

The concept of calling an event Improving Reality is one of those great ( Read more... )

“Star Trek” turns 46 today.

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