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Last Plane to Heaven: A Love Story
Fri, Mar 21, 2008
Nichols tried to light a cigarette, one of those fucking Paki horseturds.
Dragon's Tooth
Thu, Mar 20, 2008
The last place Tara expected to find magical items was in a tourist shop on the rue de Rivoli.
Becoming Stewards of Our World: The Great Theme of the 21st Century, Part Two, Editing the Sun: A Way Out Way Out
Wed, Mar 19, 2008
Our biosphere doesn’t respond on the time scales of our institutions.
Becoming Stewards of Our World: The Great Theme of the 21st Century, Part One
Mon, Jan 14, 2008
The deep secret about global warming is that the conventional wisdom solution is a lie.
Rubber Sciences
Sun, Oct 21, 2007
Science fiction and politics are, in theory, arts of the possible, just as fantasy and religion are arts of the impossible.
Christmas Eve at Harvey Wallbanger's: A Harry the Book Story
Tue, Oct 16, 2007
So we are sitting around Joey Chicago’s 3-Star Tavern, with the wind howling outside the front door and sounding just like Velvet Voice Vinnie singing off-key.
Madame Pompadour's Blade
Sat, Oct 13, 2007
They passed the carriage about an hour after they left Paris, as Geveaux had expected.
Why Carol Won't Sit Next To Me At Science Fiction Movies
Thu, Aug 30, 2007
Carol has a high threshold for embarrassment. You can't be married to me for 45 years and not have one.
An Ocean is a Snowflake, Four Billion Miles Away
Tue, Jul 10, 2007
Thorby had kept up his resistance training, but he'd been on Boreas for most of a year so he'd worried about agravitic muscular dystrophy.
Manumission
Fri, Jun 22, 2007
This morning, when you wake up and look at your rippled reflection in the basin of water near the concrete wall of your cell, you only have one true personal memory left.
Countdown to Armageddon, Episode Four
Fri, Jun 8, 2007
The straight, one-edged scramasax clanged against Harry’s own sword, once, twice, three times.
Countdown to Armageddon, Episode Two
Fri, Jun 8, 2007
A Brobdingnagian roar engulfed the thick woods.
Tweak
Thu, Jun 7, 2007
Civilizations, if they survive their nuclear age, seem always to follow the same path. “It is inevitable,” said the ship.
Laws of Survival
Wed, Apr 18, 2007
My name is Jill. I am somewhere you can't imagine, going somewhere even more unimaginable. If you think I like what I did to get here, you're crazy.
The Temple of Thorns
Sun, Mar 18, 2007
She sat cross legged on a wool sack in the small cult room and prayed.
Premature Emergence
Sun, Mar 11, 2007
During a hyperspace slide, cargo haulers like the KMC-85 did not need a human pilot on board.
The Smartest Mob . . . (a parable about times soon to come)
Wed, Mar 7, 2007
Washington was like a geezer—
Darwin's Suitcase
Sun, Mar 4, 2007
"Our English sphinx moths have proboscides as long as their bodies, but in Madagascar, there must be moths with proboscides capable of extension to a length of between 10 and 11 inches."
Charles Darwin, 1862,
Virtually, A Cat
Sat, Mar 3, 2007
The burly male technician loomed over the smaller man in engineer's orange coveralls as if by sheer size he would drive home his message.
Dreamtime
Fri, Feb 9, 2007
The silvered airship shimmered, mirage-like, on the horizon. It seemed an insubstantial yet ominous portent of the sultry air.
James Patrick Baen Memorial Writing Contest
Wed, Feb 7, 2007
Announcing the James Patrick Baen Memorial writing contest!
Scandals: Being True To Our Own Imaginations
Mon, Feb 5, 2007
Physics has been the forerunner of much of modern science, but perhaps we don't have enough verve, the true courage of our convictions.
Last Things: Cold Comfort in the Far Future
Mon, Feb 5, 2007
...the use, however haltingly, of our imaginations upon the possibilities of the future is a valuable spiritual exercise.
Crawlspace
Sat, Feb 3, 2007
In the narrow tunnels deep inside a nineteen by five mile asteroid, long pipes snaked endlessly into the blackness.
The Lord-Protector's Daughter
Fri, Feb 2, 2007
Mykella's bootsteps echoed dully as she descended the stone staircase to the lowest level of the Lord-Protector's palace.
Soul Searching
Thu, Jan 18, 2007
Dugan Growser was the last guy I wanted to see in my office, since I'd been haunting him at home for the last month.
Midnight at the Quantum Cafe
Sat, Dec 16, 2006
The torrid summer air tasted of industrial sludge as I stood ankle-deep in the rubble at the edge of the street and gazed into the darkness.
S.S. Sunbeam
Sat, Dec 16, 2006
A new Age of Sail is dawning. One in which the ships sail through outer space, not on water; and are propelled by the sunlight, not wind.
The Rest of Your Life in a Day
Sat, Dec 2, 2006
The tattoo artist was Yukako Kobayashi, and she was in her sixties or seventies—
The Littlest Wyrm-Maid
Sat, Dec 2, 2006
The problem, of course, was that humans were such speciesists.
Genre Getaways on Earth
Mon, Nov 27, 2006
Science fiction and fantasy films have some fabulous locations: the United Federation of Planets, a galaxy far, far away, and Middle Earth, to name a few.
Running Water for L.A.
Mon, Nov 27, 2006
Most days, Ron liked everything about the run towing cargo bags full of glacial pure water from Juneau to Los Angeles.
