Spotted this cool video discussing space elevator stuff – passing it along for Sci-Friday. Watch a down-to-earth breakdown of the out-of-this-world space transit system! I love the fact that he validates the premise of Mike.Sierra.Echo without even realizing it. “All of these ideas assume that we have a method of getting the material required into orbit …
This article from Space.com reminds us that space elevator tech will be difficult to engineer, but worth it. Space Week was Oct 4-10, but here at Inkican Space Week is every week! Let’s nerd out about the amazing future of space elevators. They’re an amazing idea for a reason, and the next logical step in…
Read More “Mike Sierra Echo: Space Elevator Tech – Difficult but Worth It” »
Taking a break from writing to do some new scifi concept art for Mike Sierra Echo – added it to the main page but am posting it here for your wallpaper collection. These are scenes from the novel, I’ll give you a quick description below: Our first picture is a shot of the space elevator…
Happy Monday – enjoy some pictures of 2008 EV5 – the star of Mike Sierra Echo! We’ve talked about this Aten-class Asteroid before – it’s the perfect counterweight for a future space elevator and astronomers have done the math to prove it. But what does 2008 EV5 – Evie the Asteroid in Mike Sierra Echo…
Taking a quick break from re-writing Mike.Sierra.Echo to tell you about the super-awesome ISEC academic contest to build a space elevator! I’m not the only person who thinks a space elevator is the future of exploration, so does the ISEC! Building a space elevator assumes we’ve solved a number of engineering challenges – even the…
Some of you have been asking for an update from me and here’s the answer: I’ve got major changes to make to Mike.Sierra.Echo. That means a total re-write on the novel – something I wasn’t planning on doing. Part of me is like ‘yay – I can see what’s wrong with my work and how…
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…
Read More “Middle-Grade Scifi Adventures Until Mike.Sierra.Echo Arrives” »
I was reminded of Schoolhouse Rock when I ran across this publishing advice related to ‘how books become movies.’ Any writer worth their salt wants a book to become a movie – unless you’re Clive Cussler. Sadly, ‘book-to-film scams are extremely common these days … the best way to avoid being scammed is to understand…
Let’s take a step back on this Friday afternoon to discuss Mike.Sierra.Echo and Mesh – are they ‘hard science fiction?’ Why does it matter? What’s ‘hard sci-fi,’ anyway? Who cares about the answers to these questions. Let’s answer the last question first, I stumbled upon TVTropes’ Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness page and they…
Read More “Mike.Sierra.Echo and Mesh – Hard Science Fiction” »
Happy Monday – let’s answer a question from Mike.Sierra.Echo – how dangerous is the asteroid 2008 EV5? In case you have no idea what I’m talking about, 2008 EV5 is an Aten-class Asteroid about the size of the U.S. Capitol building. Naturally, it would make a dandy counterweight for a space elevator! But what if…
Read More “Mike.Sierra.Echo – How Dangerous is the Asteroid?” »
