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There was an expression my father always used: “Nihil liberum est.” My dad was big on Latin, and it means, “Nothing Is Free.” But if the attached video does not quite do the job and you need to understand what the cost of data might look like in a dark future, read the Sci-Fi trilogy…
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Up to this point, we have been blinded by consumption because our global economy is based upon consumption. But the energy to maintain such a model is proving unsustainable. This virus underlines that zero growth is not the end — as this brilliant video presents it. Zero growth means that we are in equilibrium–it is…
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It is quite easy for a Sci-Fi author to make their aliens very human-like (guilty of charged– as in my upcoming novel, Silversides); trying to write a story where they are nothing like humans creates a lot more work for the author, even if that alien does not have a speaking part. Alien in, November…
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Life is never more than an iteration– a series of fractal experiences where we jump from one era to another, seemingly different but always the same. Years ago, in NYC, during the end of the Koch administration when subway cars lacked AC and the lights constantly flickered, I was sitting near the door of a…
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Originally reported by The Sun, Researches picked up an alien sound while their hydrophone was over the Mariana Trench. Although whale like in nature, it does not quite fit the patterns of what researchers already know. To listen to this sound, Click here. Initially, they thought it might be a mating call from whales, but they…
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Phragmites : (Phrag – my – tease) Every November, in the northeast, when the air is crisp and strong gusts sweep against a quilted sky, Phragmites will jettison their seed in one spectacular and wondrous event that can easily be mistaken for the first snow flurries of the season. But their legions are on the…
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As a reader of Sci-Fi, I want to know the author has some working knowledge of the subject and technology they are writing about. Typically, readers of Sci-Fi are former technologists, biologists, mathematicians, chemists, etc. and have held Life Sciences positions in their career. As a writer, trust me, your readers will get distracted from the…
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When my novella November Seed reaches the large screen, I am going to insist it gets recorded in binaural audio. I think the close proximity of the characters and scene tightness, especially in my favorite scene where Dan and Matt are in the woods of the Adirondacks, would work very well with this tech, without looking or…
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Even as a writer of Sci-Fi, I am overwhelmed by the detail of this image (Andromeda). I got so use to seeing a galaxy as an object, that I forgot just how much ‘star stuff’ it takes to make that galaxy. But looking at this image has brought me so much closer to my current writing, as if I…
David Nadas 