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So Real You’d Swear They Were Fake
Been watching a couple of videos available around the internet lately. Basically, they’re so amazing that part of me wants to reject that they’re even real. An actual photo taken in space in 1984. Like...
View ArticleNew Chapter Added on Wattpad
A few weeks ago it was announced that the latest story set in the Unified Republic of Stars storyworld was going to be posted on Wattpad, the social site based around reading and writing stories. Well,...
View ArticleHow Many People Can A City Hold?
The New York Times the weekend before last posted a really great article on how many people Manhattan could theoretically hold. For those who have never been here, the layout is like a forearm, long...
View ArticleWarp Drives Apparently Have Downsides
File this one under “bummer” and “well, it sounded like a nice idea.” (Don’t think about this while watching Star Trek. Don’t think about this while watching Star Trek…) According to Universe Today, it...
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Traveling To Mars, Radiation, and the Storyworld
Wired yesterday posted two great stories on the challenges of traveling to the Red Planet. The first detailed all the technological challenges that need to be overcome before we can get there. In...
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The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
When I was a kid, I wasn’t a fan of sci-fi books. I found them dense, poorly written, and full of stuff I didn’t care about. I liked sci-fi for the fantasy element–people going to strange places to...
View Article1.0 – An Introduction
Welcome to the introductory episode of the new Unified Republic of Stars podcast. I’m kicking things off this week with a brief explanation of what the hell the Unified Republic of Stars is, why I’m...
View ArticleAdding New Story Ideas To the Generator
In this week’s podcast, I mentioned ways in which people could submit new ideas to the Story Generator. Actually setting it up is a bit technical and complex but I’d love to add listener ideas to the...
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The 100
So… my girlfriend and I were searching on Netflix for something new to watch and we came across this show called The 100. Honestly, we weren’t expecting much but the cover art was vaguely interesting...
View Article1.12 – A Short History – Relative Peace
With this episode we wrap up A Short History of the Unified Republic of Stars, in which, for the first time, with the NOVA standing watch, the Republic finally knows some peace from Earth. Of course,...
View ArticleThe Martian
As I was at the airport on my way out for my Christmas holiday, I stopped in the book store looking for the usual crap I like I read when on vacation. Well… crap may be too harsh. But it’s not exactly...
View ArticleLock In
So… book number two that I read over my Christmas holiday was Lock In by John Scalzi. I picked it up because I read Scalzi’s best known works (I think), The Old Man’s War trilogy. They were good books...
View Article3.1 – Drinking: A Question of Morality, Part I
Welcome back to the Unified Republic of Stars! This week, we discuss how the new Republic, under a new and the first post-revolution president, Margarita Santiago, decided to make the nation stronger...
View Article3.2 – Drinking: A Question of Morality, Part II
Welcome back to part two and the finale of the New Age of Morality Act. An act that that attempted to make all the things that people thought wrong, things like drinking, drugs, gambling, and...
View ArticleDark Matter
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A group of people, bound together for some reason on a space ship, fly through the galaxy sometimes solving other people’s problems but usually just creating more of...
View ArticleThe Imperial Radch Trilogy
What do you do when there’s a civil war and no one knows about it or what side they’re on? To some extent, that’s the central premise of the Imperial Radch Trilogy, made up of the three books Ancillary...
View ArticleYounger Brother
Bradley Warner poked his head up above the barricade, just enough so that it allowed his eyes to peer over the wreckage that had once been a Rayo Motors’ electric sedan. The flakes of paint over his...
View ArticleKilljoys
Here’s a show I didn’t expect to like. A story about three bounty hunters (“killjoys”) who maraud through the galaxy on different bounties with modern music and dialogue and okay “ScyFy” special...
View ArticleStar Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
I know the movie is over thirty years old and I know that anything I have to say on it has most likely already been said. But after rewatching Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan for like the millionth...
View ArticleNine Fox Gambit
Are you a fan of sci-fi that never bothers to explain anything, dark settings that make Warhammer: 40K seem cheery, a culture that overvalues the metaphorical creatures they’ve chosen to represent...
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