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Speed Redefined

Last week in my post on this website, I blogged about the vast distances between star systems and how difficult it would be to travel between them. It’s a contention of mine that those immense distances are at least one of the main factors, if not the main one, that keeps aliens from other planets…

Suspending Disbelief

As a member of the science-fiction writing community, I have to deal with a phenomenon that probably comes up in our genre more often and much more strongly than in any other genre, that of the “suspension of disbelief.” This refers to the fact that in science fiction we write stories that utilize objects, phenomena,…

A Serious Lack Of Imagination

I believe there is a serious lack of imagination in science fiction today. At least in one particular facet of the genre. To illustrate what I’m talking about, let’s take a look at some recent results that have come from the world of astronomy. For more than four years, the Kepler Space Telescope has been…