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Cory Doctorow On Sun of Suns
Says Doctorow: Karl Schroeder’s new novel, Sun of Suns is the first book in a thrilling new steampunk/post-singularity/space-opera trilogy that is the finest and weirdest worldbuilding I can remember reading. Link to Review and Excerpts
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Chip’s Picks – Tim Powers
The third installment in my ongoing Chip’s Picks project, is Tim Powers Tim Powers! Whee! Tim Powers tips perilously close into straight fantasy, and…I don’t care. To be perfectly honest, the only real science fiction novel that Powers has written, Dinner at Deviant’s Palace, really, really sucks. Really, really hard. All of his good stuff–and…
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“Elevate Me!”
This ladybug is trying to fly, but she’s trapped by the ultrasound field in which she has been levitated: After the investigators got the ultrasound field going, they used tweezers to carefully place animals between the emitter and reflector. The scientists found they could float ants, beetles, spiders, ladybugs, bees, tadpoles and fish up to…
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Lame Holiday Crap of the Future
Annalee Newitz, a “surly media nerd who will be celebrating the holidays by eating your brain,” has come up with some rather wonderful predictions for future bad holiday gifts. Peer-to-peer brain distribution client: Everybody is uploading and downloading their brains via the Internet. It’s certainly the best way to travel — just upload your brain…
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Star Trek Quotes Make List of 100 Greatest Catchphrases
The TV Land cable network has compiled a list of the 100 greatest catchphrases in TV, from the Walter Cronkite’s nightly “And that’s the way it is” to “We are two wild and crazy guys!” Star Trek made the list three times, with:“Live long and prosper” (Spock, “Star Trek”)“Resistance is futile” (Picard as Borg, “Star…
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Too True to Be Funny
Last Sunday’s User Friendly.
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“Spacey” Music
From Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars to The Dark Side of the Moon, Space.com’s Spacebox features what they’re calling “the best, worst, and weirdest music inspired by space.”
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Nations Sign Pact to Make Fusion Reactor
The United States, the European Union, China, India, Russia, Japan and South Korea have signed a pact to harness the fusion process that powers the sun to make clean, safe and limitless energy.Link
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Amazon.com SF Picks of 2006
Amazon.com’s
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New Scientist’s 50-Year Forecast
As part of their 50th anniversary celebration, New Scientist published brief comments by more than 70 scientists about what the next 50 years may hold. A few clips from longer essays: The biggest breakthrough in the next 50 years will be the discovery of extraterrestrial life.— Freeman Dyson Within 50 years, lives will be significantly…