Vince's Alien Zoo

You wake up one day on permanent vacation. There are only so many jobs in the economy now that robotics take care of most routine tasks, fro...

Grab 50 atoms from anywhere on (or in) the Earth and 30 of them are Oxygen; 10 of them are Silicon, and 3 are Aluminum. These three elements...

... and The Committee on WTF2D@BS??? I've been running a supers game set in 1930 Chicago for a month now and was lost as to what to do...

I've been looking at Birch's space schemes yet again... everything from the orbital ring system, to dynamic suspension members and t...

I spent some time working on this tonight, when I should have been writing! But it was fun to noodle around, and I've got some ideas for...

I've been revisiting my nano-slick thought-experiment. The latest version, with certain limitations, grows to three-quarters of the surf...

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...