Exciting news in space! NASA has launched the new Mars Rover “Perseverance” and the craft is now safely on its way to Mars. Perseverance, aka “Percy,” will reach Mars in February 2021, and (hopefully) land safely in Jezero Crater. Perseverance is designed very similar to the Curiosity rover, but has...
Brandon Sanderson, who is widely considered the current reigning champion of modern fantasy epics, may seem to be the last person to have suffered endless streams of rejection letters from agents and publishers. In fact, before he was published, Brandon Sanderson wrote 13 novels, all rejected by everyone he sent...
Battle-Train Siege, Book 1 of The Siege Chronicles, is available for purchase now on Amazon.com. A bounty hunter with a price on his head, Davrick Caliburn must evade the sorcerous reach of the Grand Imperium. Never mind the fact that his new employer is a vampiric blood-baroness—she’s promised him a...
Apparently, famed actor Henry Cavill (aka Superman the Man of Steel, aka the Witcher Geralt of Rivia) is such a huge gaming geek that he assembles his own gaming PC! And what is he building? I can’t see what all the parts are, but he’s clearly building an AMD Ryzen...
NASA and SpaceX have successfully launched the first crewed Falcon 9 with astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station! This is the first time since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011 that astronauts have been launched from U.S. soil. Until now, NASA has relied...
Have a look at this absolutely stunning X-Wing tribute video, set to Kenny Loggins’ “Danger Zone.” The song turns out to be a perfect fit for x-wing pilots. The video has footage from Star Wars Episodes IV through IX, as well as Rogue One. I really wish Disney would make...
Before YouTube takes it down, you can watch all 9 Star Wars movies at the same time (in nine little boxes). I guess it does violate copyright, but the main point of this video is to demonstrate the timing of the pacing and plotting elements of Star Wars. Maybe that...
The Final Fantasy VII Remake has been released! Alas, it’s only for PS4, and I don’t have a PS4. Oh well… There’s a lot of nostalgia with a game like this, and the original Final Fantasy VII was one of the most beloved games of all time. It was one...
This is a real gem of a song — a parody of “My Sharona” called “My Corona” by independent artist Chris Mann. The song highlights the many social inconveniences caused by the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus, with special emphasis on the ridiculous run on toilet paper across the nation.
It has often been said that no human being can conceive of creatures that are truly alien to our world and to our experience. That is why so many aliens in science fiction basically just look like humans with prosthetics or, at best, humans in creature suits. That may be...
