Paul J. Joseph joins our site and increases the count of science fiction free serialized audiobooks. He’s releasing his book, Marker Stone: There’s trouble on CMC-6 and it’s been brewing for a long time. The golden age of space travel and asteroid mining has ended almost before it began an...

By Dennis D. McDonald The Movie Watching this movie I was struck by the similarities and differences with The Phantom Menace. Both make heavy use of computer animation, both were based on characters or situations already popular from previous media incarnations, and both dealt with grand issues like...

By Dennis D. McDonald What I liked about this film were its gorgeous production values, its nonstop action, and its reverence for classic predecessor sci-fi films. These factors got me through this film which flags at the end with fuzzy story themes but. overall, it’s a fun and engrossing ride...

PASO ROBLES, Calif. (ZP) -- I didn't think anything of it at first. A group of very drunk women in the midst of a pub crawl, eight in all, with one hollering something about knowing me from somewhere, staggered past me as I pulled cash from an ATM. These things happen. Particularly when there's drun...

"We all know how reliable bloggers are," John sarcastically observed in Episode 2.13, the Fall finale, of The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Hopefully, he'd feel differently about this blog, and you will, too... As for the episode, it was powerful, and game-changing, although not in the subtlest way. Then...

A short story about space travel. For three hours - that’s half the exam already - I have been looking for a specific button on my scientific calculator. I remember that pressing it was vital. I was taught this in a lesson I had some time ago at night school. It was orange, definitely, and the...

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart, the original good heart with which every man is born. - Mencius (372 – 289 BCE),Chinese Philosopher OXFORD, Ohio (ZP) -- It's amazing what one thinks about whilst staring at a moon-whitened ceiling, alone with only the sounds of crickets out...

While much of the attention surrounding Virgin Galactic's race to space tourism has surrounded its SpaceShipTwo, word has come that carrier ship WhiteKnightTwo will rollout in late July, and after some ground tests, take to the skies by September. With this rollout come some new details about the co...

There is a lot of discussion at the moment about the future of human space travel; where will we go, and what will we do. Some don’t want us to go to Mars, others want us going to asteroids, and others want us going back to the Moon. There are those who believe that going to the Moon is a back ste...

It’s bold and it’s bad, but some brave souls say we can overcome the biggest challenge of a Mars mission by making it a one-way trip. A planet of extremes, Mars is home to the largest mountain in the solar system, the largest canyon in the solar system and intensely severe dust storms. It is als...