In 1968 I was hired by a division of TRW Systems Group near Houston, Texas. TRW’s offices were across the street from NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center in Clear Lake City, a newly-built community that encircled NASA’s property. My first day at work wa... Read More »
Space Brothers #57 – Everyone caught that piko-piko is the Japanese onomatopoeic equivalent to “beep”, right? So we all know how the author picked Pico’s name? Well then, let’s talk about a slightly less obvious one: Ta... Read More »
Why not do both? Let’s start with Trek. The new Star Trek movie Into Darkness debuts this month. The word of mouth seems good from the few people I know who have seen advance screenings as do regular folks reporting at IMDB. I’m a littl... Read More »
First, some big news for those of you in Spain and Portugal: Crunchyroll expanded its offerings for you as of May 9th. The specific list of shows involved isn’t accessible outside your countries, so I can’t tell you what to be excited abo... Read More »
On September 12, 1962, President John F. Kennedy gave his now-famous “We choose to go to the Moon” speech at Rice University in Houston, Texas. On that sweltering day he asked his audience a question, “But why, some say, the moon?” I’ve been... Read More »
If you love stories of alien invasions, alien planets, alien everything, then you might check out the latest endeavor, Alien Sky Anthology, from Another Sky Press. I had the opportunity to interview the series editor, Justin Nicholes, about the col... Read More »
I was watching the TV commercial featuring the Space Shuttle Endeavor the other night – you know, the one where a truck tows the Shuttle through the streets of Los Angeles to its permanent exhibit hall. It struck me how terribly undignified that fin... Read More »
Without belaboring the concept, let’s do it. 1. Star Wars. The force is magic, as are most other elements. Just because something has robots, spaceships, ray guns doesn’t make it science fiction. 2. Inception. Entering different level... Read More »
I love science fiction stories with aliens. There are some good ones without aliens, but they’d probably be better if they threw in some aliens. OK, maybe not, but I still love aliens. I write space-based science fiction often, and my novels h... Read More »
A recent report in Astrobiology raised the possibility of new places to look for extraterrestrial life: on the moons of distant planets. Astronomers have now discovered evidence of well over 3000 extra-solar planets (that is, planets orbiting distan... Read More »
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