Kelly McCullough's Blog, page 60

While We Wait for Cats...

...you should know that a house-sized object skimmed past Earth yesterday. It passed within the orbit of many communication satellites.

Good thing Chicken Little didn't hear about this.

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Correction: The asteroid is ON ITS WAY, to arrive Monday. The sky IS falling!!!!

Journey to the Center of...

... Brazil?

Newser.com reports that a never before seen tribe of indigenous people were photographed in the rainforest near the border of Peru and Brazil. It is believed that these people have NEVER had contact with the outside world.

Wow. It's hard to imagine there are still places so remote that this can happen. Especially considering that I heard about them on Twitter.... :-)

From Page to You...

Happy birthday Alan Turing of the "Turing Test" for artificial intelligence. My cyberpunk fictional characters draw you a cake in ASCII and sing you a .wav!`

Neglected Cultures

I'm one of the respondents today on SF Signal's Mind Meld, which asks the question: "Which cultures are neglected in SF/F?"

I'll be curious to see if I'm the only one who bravely mentioned Race Fail....

I did, however, do my part to mention a couple of local authors including our very own Eleanor Arnason.

Vote for Best SF Books

Fly your freak flag... or at least contribute to NPR's list of best Science Fiction Novels.

Harry Potter is excluded, but you can list up to five books! Don't forget our founding foremother, Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN. After all, the mundanes don't know about our awesome genre. Let's edumacate them!

Race and Cover Art

Mindy Klasky's blog got me to this interesting post about race, authorial intent and cover art by Greg Van Eekhout in regards to his newest book and the "whitewashing" claims/concerns of some of his fans.

"Filth. Nothing but obscenities."

Harshest author on author insults of all time from Flavorwire. Have they been listening in at our critique sessions?

X-Men and Lady Gaga

I was looking for something else on SF Signals and came across this: "Magneto's Parody of Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way'".

We Will Remember it for you Wholesale

...except in real life (tm).

Memory Prosthesis is being developed, which seems to work in rats.

Sea Monkey Diary: Day 6

And just twenty-fou​r hours later, we have sea monkeys!

Viewed through a magnifying glass, the Magic Castle is fairly teeming with life; but with my rudimentary camera, I face some serious technical limitation​s in photographing the tiny critters until they really start growing.

Here's a detail view: