Choose your weapon: The tech of my science fiction book “Faraway Star.”
When writing science fiction, the choices you make about the technology you depict have broad implications for the story.
The Verge
The Moon landing at 56: What does it still mean to us?
Has it indeed proven to be a "giant leap for mankind," as Neil Armstrong said?
Interiors: Kitchen of Roman-era house of Lucius Maticeius Clemens, 4th c. CE.
Historic Painting: “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” by John Forrest, 2012.
This picture, intended to raise awareness of global warming, is a haunting visualization of its implications.
The ship that sank a neighborhood: the General Slocum disaster.
Interiors: Classroom in a school in Palamuse, rural Estonia, circa 1890s.
This classroom is where a famous Estonian novelist went to school and from which he drew much of his inspiration.
Not a “good” bad movie: Revisiting “The Room” and its terrible human failings.
This film is dead on a human level, and horribly depressing.