So the Skunk Works has announced a workable fusion-powered generator by 2017, with a mass industrial rollout by 2027, each unit small enough to sit on a truck and powerful enough to provide electricity for a city of 50-100 thousand people. The Skunk Works, being a highly secret division of Lockheed responsible for technological breakthroughs […]

Since the weather report promised sun, I’ve gone up to the Ski Valley for some face time with Mother Nature.  But the weather report was a trifle, um, optimistic, and my nature time has been kinda drowned out in a fairly literal way. I’ve been indoors a lot. I don’t have much to report, so […]

So I’ve just finished Never Let Me Go, a science fiction novel from Kazuo Ishiguro, the British author of Remains of the Day, etc. A heavy-duty literary author attempting a theme common in genre fiction deserves, I thought, a browse.  After all, Time thought this was the best novel of 2005. I’m not going to make the […]

One thing that most struck me about Worldcon was how much personal interaction has become mediated, if not dominated, by social media. I frequently found myself in a group of people who were looking at email, checking their twitter feed, browsing Facebook, and sharing cute cat pictures and amusing Youtube videos, all while trying to […]