Ascension- A Novel of the Twin Stars Is LIVE!!
My very first novel, based on the Parsec Award Nominated Podcast (which has had over a Quarter of a Million Listeners) is now up and available for...
How Old is Sci-Fi? – Atomic Rockets
There are sites on the internet that one can easily spent a whole day lost in, for some it’s Pinterest or Wikipedia, and for me it’s Project...
TorchShips – Real 3-D Space Combat by johncarlgillespie — Kickstarter
As anyone who knows me, or reads this blog knows, I’ve got this thing about Space Combat (as in, I’m fascinated by it) and have often wondered...
BBC News – Kepler 22-b: Earth-like planet confirmed
Time to build that generation ship! Astronomers have confirmed the existence of an Earth-like planet in the “habitable zone” around a star not unlike our own. The...
Breathtaking Images of Earth from 250 miles up at 17,500 miles per hour. #space
Words cannot express how beautiful this video is. What an amazing world we live on. via Time Lapse From Space – Literally. The Journey Home. on Vimeo.
NOVA | The Fabric of the Cosmos
Watched the first hour of NOVA’s documentary The Fabric of the Cosmos today- what a completely mindblowing experience. I knew a lot of it, but some of...
Your Hibernation Pod is Ready
This is interesting. If we really can induce controlled hibernation in humans, then the stars may not be so far out of reach after all. Can humans...
Authors I Wish I’d Read As a Teenager- H. Beam Piper
Today I finished reading Four Day Planet by H. Beam Piper, which is the fourth of Piper’s novels that I’ve read. He was a pulp sci-fi writer...
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Lawrence Krauss Have a Throwdown about Manned vs Unmanned Space Exploration
I have to say, Neil deGrasse Tyson is rapidly becoming one of my favorite people in science, if for no other reason than how darn cool he...
AskGaming: What would a genuinely realistic space combat sim look like?
A poster on Reddit named Nodisc asked: Let’s assume our technology continues along a predictable path and let’s assume that simply existing in space is still the...