SF author Pam Noles posts eloquently on the subject of race in Science Fiction, and the betrayal she felt when le Guin’s Earthsea stories were transferred to the big screen with an all-white cast. [BoingBoing]
Monthly Archives: January 2006
Rocketplane Limited Intervew
Rocketing toward first flight: Gary Lantz of Rocketplane Limited talks to Out of the Cradle about sub orbital launches and how close Rocketplane Limited is.
The Moon’s Smell
NASA’s Apollo Chronicles has a section dicussing what the the moon smelled like.
“Ordinary Wolves”
by Seth Kantner
Highly lyrical literary novel about a boy growing up in Alaska.
Nanotech Round-up
Baffled by some of my nanotech posts? The excellent WorldChanging.com has an excellent link-laden round-up of current developments in this fast-growing field of science. Includes info about titanium nanotubes, ethical research, nanotubes wrapped in DNA and a look at that most popular of current SF tropes, the nanofactory. [WorldChanging.com]