Global Spin

Two news items caught my attention today. Though they don’t actually have anything to do with each other, reading them one after the other evokes a certain comic-book planet: An international team of astronomers from Switzerland, France and Portugal have discovered the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System to date. The planet has a [...]

Posted by Chris in Oddly Enough, Science, Science fiction, Space on April 24th, 2007 | 4 Comments »

Hello world! Kerrigan is having her first book published! Hooray! Publication date is May 18, 2007. You can get more info at the following links: Creatrix Books and Kerrigan’s new website! (much credit and kudos to Chris as creator and webmaster of aforementioned new website!)

Posted by Deb in Books, Events, Feminism, Holiday! Celebrate!, Literature, Science fiction, Writing on February 24th, 2007 | 4 Comments »

I am: Philip José Farmer This prolific author brings surprising depths to he-man adventure tales, and broke science fiction’s prudery barrier. Which science fiction writer are you? Having never read Farmer, I’m at something of a loss. Perhaps I shall.

Posted by Deana in Alien Invasions, Books, Fun, Literature, Science fiction, Writing on January 29th, 2007 | 2 Comments »

[Adam says:] Personally, I think garments’ lost travels are more interesting than the post cards you sometimes see of a garden gnome traveling the world: The cloak worn by Sir Alec Guinness in Star Wars has been rediscovered after nearly three decades. After Guinness wore the garment for his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi, it was [...]

Posted by Chris in Film, Oddly Enough, Science fiction on January 29th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

K and I are going to give National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) a try this year. It goes something like this: starting on November 1st, each of us has to write a 50,000-word (175-page) novel by midnight on November 30th. It’s not as crazy as it sounds; hordes of people finish every year, mostly by [...]

Posted by Chris in Fun, Literature, NaNoWriMo, Science fiction on October 17th, 2006 | 11 Comments »