Several months after beginning the process, my novel Déjà Vu is now available in paperback. It’s identical to the Kindle edition (i.e. the second edition). If you’re really keen on buying a paperback of the book, you’ll see a link to the paperback on Déjà Vu’s Kindle page. Here is a direct link. Now, the [...]
What is a science fiction convention? It is a place for fans, writers, would-be writers and anybody else with an interest in science fiction to congregate and discuss the geeky details of their imagination. Yes, there are costumes. Yes, many of the fans are scientists. Nobody wore Spock ears, though I did look more like [...]
Reader, it has been a long day. I spent the early part of this morning prepping for two hours of seminars on multiple regression (if you don’t know what this is, you don’t want to; if you do know what this, you probably still don’t want to), and this afternoon was whittled away prepping for [...]
Philip Palmer on Faster-Than-Light travel in science fiction. For at this very fast speed, one’s mass will be infinite (i.e. even greater, so the equations prove, than my mass and the dimensions of my arse on Boxing Day) and this makes travel of any kind difficult. ► Faster Than the Speed of Light | Orbit Books