Science Fiction readers, despite being comfortable with the idea of advanced technology, have been slow to adapt to ebooks (especially compared to romance readers). But we’re getting there! Everyone has heard of e-books , even if they haven’t bought one. But more than a few readers are still resistant to them, which is a shame. They have their drawbacks — but […]
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If you’re a regular reader of my blog, I’m sure you’ve figured out by now that I’m just a little bit in awe of science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein – for a variety of reasons, including the fact that he’s one of a microscopic collection of authors who can make me cry. Heinlein had
I have some good news and some great news, and an Easter Egg at the bottom. Although does it count as an Easter Egg if I warn you it’s there? Although I feel I must warn you about this one–I had an Easter Egg in the footer of my website for two years, giving away
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Did you hear about the new Star Trek series, STRANGE NEW WORLDS?? It will feature Pike, Spock and Number One from the DISCOVERY series — and I really liked those three, so I am really looking forward to it. More details here. I’m also more than ready to see the third season of DISCOVERY. I
A few weeks ago, I let everyone know about BookFunnel’s Library feature (more details here if you don’t know what I’m referring to). I got a ton of email back from readers who really loved the feature and were super glad to hear about it. But I also got an email from a reader who
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Star Wars is the reason I’m writing. So it would be almost criminal for me to ignore Star Wars day. However, do you remember this photo, above? My opinion? Greedo didn’t shoot at all. I saw the original edition of the movie multiple times (heading into the three digit range), and I know it backwards.
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A recent statistic I heard was a USA one–14 million people had filed for unemployment benefits in the last 30 days. That’s 15% of the USA workforce! I’m quite sure that unemployment figures for the rest of the world will be in proportion to that. The latest statistic I can find for Canada is that
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E.O. Wilson, a sociobiologist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, on the promise and peril of the future: “The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. An Intellectual Entente (Source) c.
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Home Alone’ish In the last week, my provincial government shut down the province. The borders are closed, as are all public facilities except for hospitals, pharmacies and grocery stores and a handful of other essential services. My household is also considering self-isolating for a month, just to help flatten the curve of demand upon the
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The Witcher has finally taken Televisionland by storm. I find the story of the story of The Witcher to be one of the testaments to the power of a good story. It started off as a collection of short stories, original written in Polish by Andrzej Sapkowski. Then the collection became a series and a runaway
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