Once upon a time, one of our most noted authors of ultra-hard SF wrote a novel about a bunch of aliens living in…
Petra was brought into my office. There is something about it being the last day of your life which modulates every emotion: Petra…
A three mile wide, billion ton asteroid hits Europe. This unimaginable catastrophe actually happened five thousand years ago, and astonishingly, there is an…
The princess was beautiful but willful. It was entirely in character that she should wake in the pre-dawn glimmer and leave her chamber…
They said the passenger pigeons were dense enough to blacken the skies. They said the bison on the plains were more than the…
You’re strolling along Acacia Avenue just like last week and the week before: the rucksack slung over your back is for the swag.…
Sciencefiction.com supports geek girls – women interested in science and technology. So let me tell you about a role model – one of…
Despite the hubbub – the journalists jostling for that final refill of wine, the smoke, the noise and confusion – I couldn’t help…
A planet orbits a faraway star. Although it’s light it tugs on its parent sun, so that sometimes the star is pulled slightly…
Book 1: Equations of Life It’s London, England after Armageddon. Europe has been nuked by Christian fundamentalists, Russia’s a criminal kleptocracy, and America…
The last President of the United States sat in the purple-strewn ruins of the Rose Garden and reminisced companionably with her Secretary of…
In a few decades time it will be possible to scan a living brain at the resolution of individual neurons: cell bodies, dendrites…
The Science Channel launched its entertaining new series, ‘Dark Matters: Twisted but True’, tonight with three provocative scenes of dubious experimentation, hosted by…
We’re in the world of 2235 and there are more than a dozen interstellar colonies, linked to Earth through a central wormhole terminus,…
The DARPA Hundred Year Starship program is holding a public symposium in Orlando, FL at the end of next month. The symposium will…
