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Hoping to enlighten creators and readers about space news, storyworld developments, storytelling challenges, and anything else that pops into our heads.

Space junk came dangerously close to the International Space Station over the weekend. NASA’s response? Everyone into the lifeboats! But what about protecting the space platform America spent hundreds of billions of dollars building in the first place?

 
By Colin Andrew Ferm March 26, 2012 Tags: , , , ,

Naomi Novik’s new entry into the Temeraire series has finally come out. And you’ll love it if you dig on pretzel sentences and lackluster plots.

 
By Colin Andrew Ferm March 24, 2012 Tags: , ,

NASA ran through a lot of different plans after the launch of Skylab for space stations. One was truly interesting. But, of course, what we ended up with was the ISS.

 
By Colin Andrew Ferm March 15, 2012 Tags: , , ,

A bunch of Australian, Peace Keepers the lot of them, have proven that the Alcubierre field, otherwise known as the Warp Drive, has some problems with the math that would blow the socks off those awaiting your arrival. Is this a problem that should be addressed in the storyworld? Or will someone one day figure out a way around it? Where’s my PK Tech Girl when I need her?

 
By Colin Andrew Ferm March 14, 2012 Tags: , , , , ,

Wired hired a blogger to cover the possibility of life elsewhere as well as life in extreme places on Earth. It’s a fascinating beat that might give clues as to the both the formation of life and the hardiness of it. If it can live in harsh places here, who’s to say it didn’t form elsewhere?

 
By Colin Andrew Ferm March 13, 2012 Tags: , ,