There’s science fiction and then there’s fiction about science. Artifact, by Gregory Benford, is the former. What Mr. Benford (himself a physicist) has tried to do is basically create a story around the concept of a new element and/or set of scientific standards. The story opens with a young architect, Claire, working feverishly on an [...]
Continue Reading...Well, it’s been a pretty exciting couple of days for the astronauts that are up at the International Space Station. Between having to staple down a heat shield, and an apparently critical computer glitch, those guys have been busy. One thing that I think about a great deal when considering a lot of science fiction [...]
Continue Reading...Okay, well, I know I said I’d reserve the weekends for sharing the mesh between science fiction and present science, but I’ve recently stumbled across a pair of things that make me say, “Wow!” First off, the less glamorous: GlowFur. Well, maybe that should be more glamorous, since it is haute coture. GlowFur is a [...]
Continue Reading...I’ve decided that I want to take a slightly different tack with my weekend SciFi-Guy.com posts. I want to explore the exciting advancements that are making things of science fiction in to things of science, and there are thousands of great stories going on right now that are incredibly profound to me. I’m not claiming [...]
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