The Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomical Society has a wonderful collection of links and articles about the…um, history of astronomy. I guess that should be obvious from the title, huh?
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UK-based photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten creates tableaus of miniature villages juxtaposed with teenage girls. Check out the full series, which is at once magical and at times disturbing.
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I read this weeks Escape Pod, Reparations by Merrie Haskell. To paraphrase Steve Eley, this isn’t a 9/11 story, but it was the right day to run it. The story is beautifully, painfully written. The text was easy to read, the content was not. I encourage you to listen to it. I just swab my
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I’m at the Historic Anchor Inn for the workshop and my room is fabulous. Seriously. It’s a two room suite with fun tiki themed decor. Now, as a special treat, see that link? There are two live webcams of the hotel. On the way down with Ken Scholes, Jen West and Alethea Kontis we stopped
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If you are curious, I’m one of the folks who answered SF Signal’s MIND MELD this week. This week’s Mind Meld was influenced by a post on Lou Anders’ blog entitled Science Fiction Belongs to the World. In it, questions are raised about stories that espouse a viewpoint that is opposed to one(s) the reader
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05:53 A puppet in my bag triggered extra screening at the airport. # 07:31 Passing through Cincinnati on my way to Portland. # 13:51 In Portland and the weather is stunning. All the mountains were out. # 14:07 On the MAX. You’d think, living in NYC that I wouldn’t miss this. So clean. So quiet.
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During that period between when they close the airplane doors and when you reach cruising altitude and can turn on portable electronic devices, I skim the airline magazine. On the bottom left corner of a page was a mini-article about the Rolleiflex MiniDigi AF5.0 It’s a digital camera version of the traditional 1920’s Rollei. You
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. . I’m in the airport in Cincinatti waiting for my connection to Portland. I’ll spend the day in town and then head down to Lincoln City for a writing workshop hosted by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Their guest instructor is Sheila Williams. As you might imagine, I’m excited about this. Even
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Evil Robot Monkey first appeared in the Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, volume 2. To test a new microphone, ((A Blue Snowball mic, which I think I might love)) I decided to record this because it is darn short. Here you go. Six minutes of science-fiction. [audio:https://maryrobinettekowal.com/audio/evilrobotmonkey.mp3] Sliding his hands over the clay, Sly
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A friend of mine and fellow writer, D. T. Friedman volunteers at a non-profit organization and needs your help. Specifically, your socks. SOCK MY PUNKS! Hi there! I’m the Resource Coordinator for a non-profit organization that works with homeless and indigent teenagers, as well as teens who are in bad home situations. OxenFree is a
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Check out Mike Brotherton’s list of Ten Issues for Hard Science Fiction, complete with handy links. There are a number of issues that continue to keep coming up in hard science fiction, or any science fiction trying to get the facts right. I just helped my collaborator here a few days ago answer a reporter’s
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13:39 I never hear my computer’s fan in NYC. At my parents’ house the same fan is so darn loud. # 16:11 I’m frustrated by how often my site is goes off-line for exceeding CPU quotas. Want to suggest another hosting company or fiddle with MySQL? # 16:46 I hate customer service that does not
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Read Worm Within by Cat Rambo at Clarkesworld Magazine. The LED bug kicks feebly, trying to push itself away from the wall. Its wings are rounds of mica, and the hole in its carapace where someone has tacked it to the graying boards reveals cogs and gears, almost microscopic in their dimension. The light from
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Check out the brand new issue of Shimmer! Our 9th issue, now available! We’ve got 100 pages of Shimmery goodness in this issue: eleven new stories by authors including M. K. Hobson, Angela Slatter, and Stephanie Campisi; an interview with Dave Farland, a Lucy cartoon by Chrissy Ellsworth, and terrific art from Aunia Kahn (check
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The producer and the director of “There Will Come Soft Rains” — which you should go see — asked me to build a new head for the dog in the show. We discussed budget and at one point the producer asked if I needed money up front for materials. I laughed. “There is no materials
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