Archives for October, 2006
Reptilian Agenda
Posted by Claire L. Evans on October 31, 2006 This just in from the NASA news wire: 11,000 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Sagittarius, a massive galactic snake is slithering across the Universe. Of course, it isn’t a real lizard (the appellation is just some weird NASA Halloween humor) but the core of a sooty cloud larger than a dozen of our…
Hyperdrives, Superscript: Computers is Real
Posted by Claire L. Evans on October 20, 2006 A few months ago, in homage to the last puffs of summertime breeze to caress the Pacific Northwest, I visited the largest computer in the world. Not exactly beach blanket bingo, and I probably could have found a more youthful way to celebrate the dog days of summer, but this monument to computational power, too,…
Time-Based Tropes
Posted by Claire L. Evans on October 17, 2006 When our futures become the past, what will they prove to have been like? As mind-bending as this question is, it lies at the heart of every successful science fiction story. Good writers in this underappreciated genre can be so forward-thinking that instead of asking, “What will the future be like?” they are already devising…
