It's possible that the problem we have with discovering a means of communicating or transporting ourselves across interstellar distances lies in our assumption that both communication and transportation have to be serial and linear in nature, that is, going from point to contiguous point to the next contiguous point in a continuous set of such ( Read more... )

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Dedicated to the memory of the love I've never met, never known, and somehow remember, and the hole in time that the music that the 1960s and 1970d opened up.

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Dragon Drive

Volume 2: Eye of the Storm

Book 1: Dragon From the Void

Part 5: The Thing in the Moonlight
Chapter 8: Crotalus horridus

“Ever read a book called The Cosmic Serpent?”

“No.”

“Well, there was these two astronomers, Victor Clube an’ Bill Napier, who had a theory about the origin o’ widespread cultural beliefs about comets that ( Read more... )

All my life I've had lucid dreams and lucid nightmares, and as varied as they are, they have one thing in common: they all take place in a landscape which is an odd mish-mash of places where I've lived down the years and some I've only visited, and some I only know about from books and articles -- but which endures. That's the odd thing: it ( Read more... )

Throughout my life I've had lucid dreams, those energy-rich and often egregiously weird dreams that you can remember forever after. Sometimes they've been good, but more often they've been depressing, frightening, or aggravating. Anyway, many of them have put me in situations in which the environment is like that of the Cretaceous, the Jurassic, ( Read more... )

On November 17, 2005, I had a splendid dream that I put up on my blog with the title "Wonderful Dream! :-)" This evening, July 4, 2006, it came true -- sort of.( Read more... )

Since I was a small child -- and I was born in 1945 -- I have frequently had dreams in which the world was moving on, or had moved on, from the time of humanity.( Read more... )

A lot of people lately have noted the fact that alongside the horrifying events of 9-11-01, apparently sharks have started their own war on bathers, earthquakes are happening in record numbers, and similar things all seem to indicate that Nature has declared her own war on us. Does all this indicate Armageddon is about to start?( click here to read more )