Reading Recommendation: New York 2140, by Kim Stanley Robinson
I finished reading 2140 the day that the United States announced it would pull out of the Paris agreement on Climate Change. I believe today may go down in history as the day we lost global political power and destroyed the global good will of other nations towards...The Importance of Science to SF
I am writing this from a coffee shop in DC. One of the reasons I came here at this time was to participate in the March for Science right here in the capital. The March I ran into three friends, fellow writer Brenda Clough and her husband Larry Clough, and another...Post #7: The Recovering World of POST
This is the seventh, and probably next to last, of my posts about POST. We’re funded, which is great news. $3778 out of $3500. Now every new backer helps make the Kickstarter an even better deal. We have four days left. Three of my friends put in stories that...Reading Recommendation: Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life
E. O. Wilson’s Half Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life is one of the best books I’ve read on the future of Earth. He states the problem clearly….after beginning with an apt description of what we (mankind) are like and then stating that we have...Reading Recommendation: The Water Knife, by Paolo Bacigalupi
I just finished the audiobook of Paolo Bacigalupi’s “The Water Knife.” Nicely done! Paolo has always truly good at warning — which is one of the big jobs science fiction does well. In this case, he’s warning about a future that feels very...
Join me at the Stonecoast Alumni reading in just over two hours. Here's a YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkQvbDGtpkQ
