I’ve read rave reviews of Robert Lanza’s and Nancy Kress’ science fiction novel, Observer. After learning that it is based…
Four hundred scholars and computer scientists recently issued a warning about the potentially catastrophic dangers of artificial intelligence, saying, “Mitigating…
One of the masters of so-called, “hard” science fiction is Arthur C. Clarke. With degrees in mathematics and physics, Clarke…
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Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel Del Rey Books, 2016 I bought this book based on an ad and its New…
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In 2000, Eugene Stormer and Paul Crutzen introduced the title “Anthropocene” to denote the modern epoch in which “major and still…
In Cixin Liu’s “The Dark Forest,” the second book in the Chinese sci-fi writer’s “The Three-Body Problem” series, an alien…
In a recent blog, titled, “Planning for AGI and Beyond,” Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT-3,…
Voyages of the Delphi, published by NewLink Publishing, a division of Mystic Publishers When I was in a graduate student,…
Review of The Revolutionary Genius of Plants by Stefano Mancuso. Atria Books, New York: 2017 A headline from the Washington…
I’m always writing a book. Well, not writing, actually, but working on a book anyway. Right now, I’m doing research…
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Hello fans and readers! Your New Year’s treat is a short story that seems appropriate, given the growing popularity (and…
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