Valuable new information on future Mars explorers and the people who love them. Yes, it’s important to look before we leap onto the red planet. Determining the safest Mars caves for future astronauts is part of the 55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference and yes, they’re serious. Here’s why: Mars has no ozone layer! Did…
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Hot Scifi Summer is back – pick out a free short story from Smashwords through the end of the month (July 31)! Here are some of the short stories you can get for free on Smashwords: Call of the Void “I picked up his trail at the edge of a crater. Over my shoulder, three moons…
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I ran across a supercool resource yesterday – a Solarpunk-style High Speed Rail is moving forward in California and you can see a bunch of HD concept art / videos right here! Of course, your first question might be ‘how is this solarpunk?’ The answer is simple. ‘Solarpunk works to address how the future might…
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Interesting ‘Life imitates Mesh’ moment – Lambda School went from ‘hottest start-up in Silicon Valley’ to ‘another failed con job’ in a little under seven years. Heartbreaking loss for all those who pinned their financial dreams on Lambda’s success, but there’s more to the story.Let’s take a deep-dive on this lovely Monday morning: If you…
For this Sci-Friday, we take a trip to the dark side of a Star Wars fan’s visit to the Empire Strikes Back set back in 1980. I know, I know – TV shows love to do ‘lucky fan gets to do X’ segments – Jimmy Kimmel does them all the time. But in the case…
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Adam Savage comes up with wise words on effective promotion for creative professionals in this video from three weeks ago. His advice begins around 3:06 but the entire 9-minute video is worth watching. Take a look: What I like about Adam’s ‘not being a blowhard’ advice is that isn’t a mantra or Holy Grail…
If you want to understand the decisions of AI companies, it’s pretty easy – just think like a psychopath. Safe Superintelligence, Inc. seeks to safely build AI far beyond human capability, according to Ars Technica but the decision smacks less of selfless humanity than it does ‘pivoting to avoid a market risk.’ No AI company…
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I want to drill in and talk more about Creative Challenges in a Boring Dystopia – something I started to discuss on Monday. Every individual creator fights an uphill battle when it comes to success. I can’t walk around venting my spleen though. Success will come when people love my work, not because they pity me….
This article illustrates the challenges of being creative in a boring dystopia, but it doesn’t justify despondent defeat. No, if anything, creativity is more important in a bad situation, not less. Our human need to express ourselves through art has been a survival skill all the way back to hunter-gatherer days. “Art is more than…
Looking for new summer reading adventures? Gotchu covered, fam. I realize kids are filling out their summer vacation TBR pile and my novel hasn’t been released. So here are some scifi middle-grade adventures to tide you over until Mike and Dom get here: “The Last Kids on Earth” series by Max Brallier: While this series…
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