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Feast of Fools

“I could not move to warn all the younger soldiers

That we had been betrayed from above” Leonard Cohen

So, I get it, I do. I get pulling for the underdog. I get flipping stereotypes on their head. I even get subverting cultural assumptions.

There is something very powerful in taking a story where you least expect it. The first time it’s done.

I even understand the attraction of “nostalgie de la boue” back in the 20s, when people ripped into the Victorian culture with a fascination for anti-he...

Solar, Space, and Geomagnetic Weather, Part V: Solar Activity and the Activity Indices By Stephanie Osborn

Solar, Space, and Geomagnetic Weather, Part V: Solar Activity and the Activity Indices By Stephanie Osborn

http://www.stephanie-osborn.com

“Interstellar Woman of Mystery”

Rocket Scientist and Novelist

Okay, back to bar magnets again. Because the Earth has one. But of course it’s three-dimensional, not like our iron filings on paper example. Imagine picking up the bar magnet with the iron filings and paper attached, and rotating it 360º, letting the iron filings remain in the areas they move t...

The Imaginary Divide by outofthedarkness

*Forgive me. I’m working on Darkship Revenge and don’t want to take my head out of it -SAH*

The Imaginary Divide by outofthedarkness

I listen to a wide range of music, but I tend to circle around back to country for major events, and the anniversary of 9-11 is one of those. One of the songs on my playlist for the anniversary is “In America” by the Charlie Daniels Band. I happened to notice that the song was originally released in 1980, in response to a lot of the social unrest of the 1970s....

You Are Not Alone

This weekend I was in NYC, at the Calliope Writers’ workshop. The Calliope Writers’ workshop, supported by the Talliesin Nexus and Liberty Island is a writers’ workshop.

If you’re saying “what, another one?” well… yes. But it is much more too.

For the writers’ workshop part, I would encourage any of you, even those already making a living from writing, who WISH to make a greater living and who are “liberty minded” to apply and see if you get in. The catch there is that it’s very … exclusive....

The Steve Jobs Myth – D. Jason Fleming

The Steve Jobs Myth – D. Jason Fleming

Steve Jobs is often held up as something of a modern hero. The man was undeniably a genius. And he did a lot of good in his quest to “change the world”.

However, he also had two problems, and one of them might do nearly as much damage to the world as he did good.

The first problem was that his genius caused people to excuse his a-hole tendencies, and he exploited that to the fullest. (He also had a massive charismatic effect on people which he used ruthl...

I Probably Will Have a Guest Post Later

Dark Fate will probably not happen today. Maybe tomorrow.

As some of you know, I spent the weekend in NYC at Calliope Workshop, a function supported by the Talliesin Nexus and Liberty Island.

I meant to write my impressions today, but the more I turn it in my head the more I’m sure my world — myself, my career, my perceptions of my career and my hopes for our field — got turned upside down (not in a bad way) yesterday. I just can’t pin down WHY I feel that way, and until I can explain it, I c...

How We’ve Come So Far So Fast

Over the last few months, every gathering, every cultural clash, in the crannies of science fiction culture so hidden that only we, the crazy people, care about them, or in national culture, I keep hearing “but then wasn’t like now. Now it’s all crazy” or “Now things are so polarized” or “Now–”

Um…

Okay. Part of the reason things are now so polarized is that before dissenting voices were isolated. You couldn’t speak up, because there was no network of alternative news. Say, Benghazi, for ins...

Mine Eyes Have Seen A Promo Post – Free Range Oyster

Mine Eyes Have Seen A Promo Post – Free Range Oyster

JL Curtis The Grey Man: Partners

Texas Deputy Sheriff John Cronin and his granddaughter Jesse Miller have out-stubborned, out-fought, and out-lived every challenge life’s thrown at them so far… But there are times when a little help is needed.

Slowly recovering from being stabbed, John Cronin gets a tip from inside the very cartel that’s hunted him, that plans are afoot to smuggle terrorists and missiles across the border. Meanwhile, Jess...

Planning It All Out

I’m away from home at an undisclosed location (which will become disclosed in an AAR, but because of the nature of this trip I don’t have time to meet with any fans, and I don’t want to offend anyone. Maybe another time) and as we boarded the plane yesterday I thought how impossible this type of trip — including the stuff in the airport like concession stands — would be to plan out, if you were some kind of a central planner.

We flew across the country whisked from a plane to another plane (w...

Solar, Space, and Geomagnetic Weather, Part IV By Stephanie Osborn

Solar, Space, and Geomagnetic Weather, Part IV

By Stephanie Osborn

http://www.stephanie-osborn.com

“Interstellar Woman of Mystery”

Rocket Scientist and Novelist

“So what the heck are CMEs? I mean, what causes them? In detail this time, please!” you ask. (Or maybe you don’t. But chances are, SOMEONE reading this IS asking it.)

Okay.

Coronal Mass Ejections are gigantic explosions that occur, usually in the vicinity of particularly active sunspot groups (though not always). We’re still discover...