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A little while ago, Chris Mooney and his co-author Sheril Kirshenbaum sent PZ Myers a copy of their book Unscientific America, mysteriously expecting a relatively neutral or favorable review. The trio...
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Ok folks, I know my posting frequency this month has been atrocious and it’s been a long, slow slide down from daily analysis and opinions pieces to once to twice a week fact-checks, but if I can be...
View Articlesci-fi saturday: chapter 011
As Christine and Steve went to their quarters and Dot decided to go for a stroll with Nelson, Ace made his way towards one of the claw shaped high rises. Behind him, flying pods zoomed through the...
View Articlesci-fi saturday: chapter 012
The forces of the Shadow Nation descended on the Rexx like a dark, supernatural plague. The first planet to fall was a small world identified as Xi 13Jb by the Nation’s computers. A swarm of destroyers...
View Articlesci-fi saturday: chapter 013
Dot’s destroyer floated in an orbit around a world much like Venus, covered by a thick veil of toxic, noxious gasses. Its parent star was a turbulent, orange sun with a gas giant in close orbit. Just...
View Articlesci-fi saturday: chapter 014
The invasion of Rexx Prime began with the brutal impacts of the troop carriers deploying their weapons mid-descent. Smashing into the towering, interconnected spires of Rexx cities, they sent out...
View Articlesci-fi saturday: chapter 015
As Ace’s warships were making their journey back to Earth, neither he, Dot, Nelson, or the humans knew about the political storm which was about to throw the planet into turmoil. In the five months of...
View Articlesci-fi saturday: chapter 016
Ace and Dot looked around their new accommodations on Earth, an impressive penthouse apartment reserved for visiting dignitaries in the part of the capital hyper-city known as Diplomat Lane. Only the...
View Articlesci-fi saturday: chapter 017
Like all humans, Ace dreamt in his sleep. More often than not, his dreams took place on alien worlds which he either visited or saw and read about in ancient alien archives. On his first night on Earth...
View Articlesci-fi saturday: chapter 018
Just as Nelson predicted, Ace and Dot became media sensations and every global news network and entertainment show wanted to talk to them. The offers came at all hours of the day with booking agents...
View Articlesci-fi saturday: chapter 019
Lombard walked into his office with a brooding depression. After he was verbally disemboweled by Ace on global television, his book hit a brick wall. His agent refused to sell it, most distributors...
View Articlesci-fi saturday: chapter 020
Gene poured himself some fine cognac and swirled it in the glass to hear the ice cubes clink. He walked across the cavernous library and took his seat on a plush couch. The library, all its thin...
View Articlesci-fi saturday: chapter 011
As Christine and Steve went to their quarters and Dot decided to go for a stroll with Nelson, Ace made his way towards one of the claw shaped high rises. Behind him, flying pods zoomed through the...
View Articlesci-fi saturday: chapter 012
The forces of the Shadow Nation descended on the Rexx like a dark, supernatural plague. The first planet to fall was a small world identified as Xi 13Jb by the Nation’s computers. A swarm of destroyers...
View Articlesci-fi saturday: chapter 013
Dot’s destroyer floated in an orbit around a world much like Venus, covered by a thick veil of toxic, noxious gasses. Its parent star was a turbulent, orange sun with a gas giant in close orbit. Just...
View Articlesci-fi saturday: chapter 014
The invasion of Rexx Prime began with the brutal impacts of the troop carriers deploying their weapons mid-descent. Smashing into the towering, interconnected spires of Rexx cities, they sent out...
View Articlesci-fi saturday: chapter 015
As Ace’s warships were making their journey back to Earth, neither he, Dot, Nelson, or the humans knew about the political storm which was about to throw the planet into turmoil. In the five months of...
View Articlesci-fi saturday: chapter 016
Ace and Dot looked around their new accommodations on Earth, an impressive penthouse apartment reserved for visiting dignitaries in the part of the capital hyper-city known as Diplomat Lane. Only the...
View Articlesci-fi saturday: chapter 017
Like all humans, Ace dreamt in his sleep. More often than not, his dreams took place on alien worlds which he either visited or saw and read about in ancient alien archives. On his first night on Earth...
View Articlesci-fi saturday: chapter 018
Just as Nelson predicted, Ace and Dot became media sensations and every global news network and entertainment show wanted to talk to them. The offers came at all hours of the day with booking agents...
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