Photo by Andrea Pol on Unsplash Here's another excerpt from the diaries of Grad Bernart. It's a little frustrating, how much he leaves unsaid at the end, but I promise to update you as soon as I find anything relating to the mysterious message. Here goes: It started with the curious package I received today. … Continue reading When is a rose not a rose?
Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images Okay, yet another post that has nothing to do with sci-fi, fantasy or writing. It's just, I’ve got a problem. I admit, it’s not exactly a big problem but, still, it’s a problem. I’ve got new neighbours. Don’t leap to conclusions. The truth is, the new neighbours … Continue reading The Neighbours from Hell. And Heaven.
This is the first in a series of blogs taken from the research notes of Grad Bernart. Some of you may already know of Grad Bernart as the Collegium scholar who famously talks to plants. A few of you may also know that he was the teacher of Anders, whose adventures feature in my upcoming … Continue reading On the Philosophy of Ants
Remnant Population tells the story of a woman who stays behind on an alien world when all of her fellow humans abandon a failed colony. Imagine the love-child of Robinson Crusoe and Enemy Mine with Ursula K. LeGuin acting as midwife and you’ll get some idea as to what to expect from Remnant Population. There … Continue reading Review: Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon
Does the colonization of Mars depend on this? istolethetv/Flickr Creative Commons Now that you've clicked on the link with the cute photo, give me a moment. I promise I'll get to dogs and space travel soon. But first, ever since I mentioned akolouthology on this blog a couple of weeks ago, I have received literarily* … Continue reading Are Dogs Essential for Space Travel?
Photo CC0 Public Domain A Fourth of July Weekend message for everyone (even the veggietarians)! (And before any veggietarians get mad at me, I'm one of you. Just don't tell anyone else.) Ah, the brats are on the barbeque and I'll add the brioche in a couple of minutes just to toast it lightly. (What, … Continue reading Happy Interdependence Day Weekend!
The Black Tides of Heaven by J. Y. Yang The Black Tides of a Heaven is a fantasy novella set in a medieval pseudo-China where magic, monsters and gunpowder co-exist. So far, so good. The story starts by following twins, Mokoya and Akeha, who are unwanted by their empress-mother and gifted to a monastery to … Continue reading Review: The Black Tides of Heaven
iℏ(∂/∂t) | Ψ ( 😁, 😍) ⟩ = H^| Ψ ( 😁, 😍) ⟩ I've got an exciting update on the latest findings from the future time capsule discovered by researchers at the County Durham College of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fine Arts (CDCAAHFA). Physicists and linguists have been struggling to decipher a set … Continue reading Mathematics of the Heart
CC0 More news from the fine folk at County Durham College of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fine Art. Scientists working in the Temporally Non-Localized Quantum Effects (TempNoLoQo) Research Group have found a time capsule from the future! TempNoLoQo has spent the past five years investigating how the observation of photons in the present can affect … Continue reading Scientists Discover Time Capsule…from the Future!
Image courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons by Julie Falk Which sci-fi/fantasy book do you find so important, so mind-blowing, so compelling or just so darn fun that, in your humble opinion, other people simply need to read it? Last week, I posted this question on fantasy-writers.org and sffchronicles. Initially, answers tended towards the predictable, with … Continue reading What science-fiction or fantasy novel would you make required reading?
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