Over the last few decades, 3D printing technology has made leaps and bounds, providing nerds like me with a fun hobby, and industry professionals with an interesting new tool to aid the problem solving process. It also gives writers of science fiction a fun tool to use as we speculate and create. 3D printing is …
Time for another Science Saturday! Here goes: MIT: Smart Pills Researchers at the University of Chicago have developed a way to measure changes in molecular signaling. Theoretically, this could pave the way for creating programmable pills to precisely target a patients individual needs. There’s a lot more research that needs to be done before that …
NOTE: As usual, I will try to include as few spoilers as I can. If you have not read A Printer’s Choice, but you think you may, you’re safe here. Let’s jump right in. Here’s the cover: (I know you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but this one’s awesome.) And here’s the synopsis. …
This is quite unrelated to writing, but I thought I’d start including a little bit of what I do other than writing here on the blog. Recently, I went camping with a few friends in the Sierra National Forest. After 20 miles of hiking and an unsuccessful afternoon of fishing, I’ve concluded that it is …
I’m gonna try my hand at keeping up a new series. Every Saturday I’ll collect some interesting science news articles and link them here. I think it’ll be a good way to remind myself what’s real, and what’s sci-fi. I’ll give some opinions as well, just for good measure. I present: Science Saturday ScienceNews: …
This post is a little different. I’m not going to review a book, but instead I’ll recommend a whole series. The Bobiverse, A sci-fi series by Dennis E. Taylor is both entertaining and insightful. It currently includes 3 volumes, We Are Legion (We Are Bob), For We Are Many, and All These Worlds. All three …
NOTE: I am not affiliated with Audible in any way. I just like the service. I promised to share some of my thoughts on Audible, so here they are: Last week I wrote that Audible has become my new best friend, and it’s true. I love the fact that I can listen to a book …
Science Fiction is characterized by the presence of advanced technologies. Starting now, I’ll be writing a post every once in a while detailing specific technology trends in sci-fi, how modern tech applies to sci-fi past and present, and novels and stories that make good use of technology to tell a story. Today, I’ll start by …
A close friend recently asked me how I manage to be a writer. This is a very vague question, but when I asked her to elaborate, I found it was really a question about time management. I’ll paraphrase it as, “How do you have time to attempt to launch a writing career, given everything that’s …
Over the course of working on Laz, I’ve come to learn a lot about myself as a writer. One of those things is that sometimes I have the attention span of a goldfish. This is particularly dangerous when conducting research. Research is usually necessary for writing fiction novels. Writers are bound to run into topics …