This Is the Sound of Science (& fiction)

This Is the Sound of Science

Sounds:

• Spaceships docking
• Hear a nuclear bomb -- advert included
• Silence

Robotic ants or antic robots (another webpage)

Prison Recidivism:  Will prisoners commit crimes again? Brain scans reveal.

Can cells be used as computers?  Researchers are trying to find out.

• Greg Bear said yes in "Blood Music" although I doubted it because of their simple drive to survive.  Bear may be right, after all!

Rudy Rucker on the fourth dimension and what its portal may be like.

"French kids are better behaved"

• not very meaty, but her books may be of interest
• however, I should add that my kids are better than yours

This Is the Sound of Science Fiction (and poetry and other fictions)

David Farland on

• Payoffs
• Flashbacks

Inspiration hands on writing

Dan Chaon reading contemporary literature

• J. Robert Lennon rebuts that most of it's bad.

Mark Lawrence on how George R.R. Martin changed fantasy

George Zebroski story in Nature

Interview with Bruce Boston (includes sound clips)

• Part 1