Link: Kim Stanley Robinson looks at our future in the Anthropocene
In Nautilus David Grinspoon interviews science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson about his recent work, 2312 and the disconnect between technological optim...
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Hunting for Dyson spheres
From Markus Hammonds at io9: “The Hunt for Alien Megastructures”. Turns out that people are already using observational data to try to identify planet-scale ...
The Neandertal treatment
Virginia Hughes, in National Geographic News, takes on the subject of whether we will someday clone Neandertals: “Return of the Neanderthals”. She gets into ...
Quote: Heinlein on specialization
Robert A. Heinlein, in The Notebooks of Lazarus Long:
Unexpected "Radium Age" stories
I was enjoying a Nature discussion of “radium age” sci-fi literature, when this line caught me by surprise:
Special effects
The day has come when you can raise money for a movie by subscription, and here’s an interesting article profiling a project that’s trying to put old-style F...
Quote: Ellison on posthumous work
Writer Harlan Ellison has been saying goodbye to fans, according to the Madison independent paper, Isthmus. The interview is interesting, including this part...
Flaws from far far away
John Scalzi snarks out the design flaws of science fiction movies this week. First Star Wars: