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Seveneves by Neal Stephenson [Library of Babel]
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson [Library of Babel]Seveneves is the latest from Neal Stephenson, and true to form is a whopping huge book-- 700-something "pages" in electronic form-- and contains yet...
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Physics Blogging Round-Up: Condensed Matter, Magic, Navigation, and Late Nights
Physics Blogging Round-Up: Condensed Matter, Magic, Navigation, and Late NightsAnother week, another set of posts at Forbes to link here:-- Why Do Solids Have Energy Bands? A conceptual explanation of...
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Wizard Trouble
Wizard TroubleI was staring out the diner window, watching it rain, when Jimmy the werewolf slid into the booth behind me. “We got trouble, boss,” he said, and I spilled coffee over the back of my...
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On the Need for "Short Story Club"
On the Need for "Short Story Club"So, the Hugo awards were handed out a little while ago, with half of the prose fiction categories going to "No Award" and the other half to works I voted below "No...
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Ancillary Trilogy [Library of Babel]
Ancillary Trilogy [Library of Babel]The hot SF release of the fall is Ann Leckie's Ancillary Mercy, concluding the Imperial Radch trilogy. The first of these, Ancillary Justice won a Hugo two years...
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Wizard Trouble: Full Story
Wizard Trouble: Full StorySo, a funny story about this. I posted a snippet of a fantasy story back in August, and enough people said nice things about it that I actually got off my ass and did some...
View ArticleQuantum Short Fiction, Voting Open Now
Quantum Short Fiction, Voting Open NowThe Center for Quantum Technologies is running a "Quantum Shorts" contest, where they solicited short stories exploring some aspect of quantum physics. They cut...
View ArticleThe Schrödinger Sessions II: More Science for More Science Fiction
The Schrödinger Sessions II: More Science for More Science FictionAs you probably already know, last year we ran a workshop at the Joint Quantum Institute for science-fiction writers who would like to...
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"Needs to work harder..."
"Needs to work harder...""If life were a mellow elementary school run by well-meaning education PhDs what would your report card say?"catdynamicsThu, 06/09/2016 - 07:57TagsRandomSF“If life were a...
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Arrival Thoughts
Arrival ThoughtsPeople have been raving about the new movie Arrival, which is an adaptation of Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life," which I did a guest lecture on for a colleague's class on science...
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