Last blog we discussed manned space flight on the theme that we humans have to directly experience things. More on that line… To anyone who has seen the Mona Lisa in person, seeing it on TV or in an art book is meaningless. The original cannot be captured, it must be experienced. Perhaps a…
“And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close, with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you, all of you on the good earth.” Frank Boreman Apollo 8 “Robotic exploration is to real exploration as masturbation is to glorious, loving sex.”- Anonymous Nothing is…
I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED deep space stories about star-spanning governments and alien races, ala Babylon 5 and Star Trek. In my first series, the adventures of Robert Fenaday and the genetically-engineered woman Shasti Rainhell, aboard the privateer Sidhe, I created the universe all my SF stories would be set in, much as author Larry Niven did…
ON THE ORIGINS OF MAAURO: the combat android built by the long gone race she calls ‘The Creators’ Hmmn, how to discuss this without generating spoilers? Well I will just have to give it a go. Maauro, like so many things, came from the failure of a prior project. I had decided to write a…