Vince's Alien Zoo

In SF, we tend to look a few hundred years into the future, and deal in starships and extrasolar worlds. I've always wanted to look o...

I obsess about manned space travel, going to other worlds in the solar system for fun and profit, but one thing is really short-sighted; wh...

A guy is learning how to shoot with a bow, and his teacher tells him to draw the arrow back in one fluid motion, aim, and- "When you le...

I'm a little early, but I was thinking today about how my writing year has gone. I've made no big story sales; I'm grateful to t...

A 1,000 meter Solar Power Bubble would generate 10 MW of power, roughly 12 hours a day. My earlier estimates are 11.1 million kg of bubble, ...

Alright, I was playing around with an old idea again, something Paul Birch talked about with his Orbital Ring System and Kingsbury also elab...

I haven't been writing in my blog, and I'd like to do something about that, so I'm going to try to write at least a little somet...