It appears that's what NASA has been doing recently, and they have their collective eyes on some seriously expensive real estate. Trappist-1 is all over the news. Primarily, because the system has three, count em, THREE planets in the sweet spot. The star is hydrogen burning and in its infancy. Meaning, that if there isn't... Continue Reading →
The end of Containment
When it come to TV, I'm always late to the party. Before I go much further, I want to say this. The actors of the CWs first and only season of Containment were some of my favorites. One of those episodes is covered in the entertainment section of Design and Trend. If you're looking for... Continue Reading →
Don’t Copy That; soldiering up your fiction
Reblog edition. . Back on the 12th, I wrote an article for the scifi romance brigade on writing fictional military characters. I wanted to let it have some time on the home blog today before it fades into obscurity. I spent some of the weekend back writing in the universe that inspired this post, and... Continue Reading →
Mocking Robert Shawyer
Life, once again, imitates art The British physicist who completed his work on EMdrive in 2007 has known his share of heartache. Thank goodness, he was British, and had that stiff upper lip thing going for him. The drive he proposed last decade broke part of Einstein's theory ... well, in half, and his critics... Continue Reading →
Lost in Edit
Brother Mine is done, and I'm in the waiting to edit stage. I try not to look at a WIP for a few days after. Let it marinate. Sailor was fun. The entire Home in the Stars series was fun. This one was... passionate. I really got to let go with the feelings in this... Continue Reading →
Sharing V. Projection
This week I did a tally and I've got 11 works of romantic fiction out on the market. I'm working on a new series. The inventory was interesting. An author I know once made a comment that we put some of ourselves into everything we write. Sometimes we project ourselves onto characters which is a... Continue Reading →
Fun with Google! Why time travel is never gonna happen…
I google stuff, so you don't have to. On a whim, I started googling time travel this morning just to see what the world was up to in the field. The idea came to me that I could break down some of those results on this blog about science fiction. Time is real. That's not... Continue Reading →