Official synopsis: "Religion plays a part in worldbuilding, but if you just lift aspects of current religions, they may not fit well into the world you are creating. How can religion be added without making it a caricature ( Read more... )

Saw a tweet of a humorous review of "Goodnight Moon", and was reminded that this book feels a bit creepy to me. #

The words "Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere" bring to mind Clarke's "9 million names of God".The world disappears #
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Firefox "Read It Later" extension is useless. If an internet article spans several pages, it saves only the first one. #

Read It Later does that even if the multipage article was already opened in a "view whole article" mode. RIL still only saves the first page #

I still don't know a good way to read web pages offline, other than opening them in ( Read more... )

At the ArmadilloCon programming brainstorming meeting, people were asked to come up with ideas for discussion panels, and also to state who they think would be good on that panel. No ideas were off limits, except totally unrealistic ones -- don't come up with an idea that requires a presence of a person who certainly won't be there. So for example ( Read more... )

This is the first time I'm writing a tribute to an Important Person Who Has Died. But of all the writers who have shaped my taste in science fiction, Arthur C. Clarke was probably the most influential ( Read more... )