SETI: A subject dear to my heart. As to finding a "new host", if it comes down to that, and I don't think it will, it's going to have to be right here in the solar system until we circumvent some major laws of physics, especially those propagated by that party-pooper, Einstein. So far, clo...

Like any other fanatic religion that denigrates its detractors as "deniers" or "heretics", the religion of global warming is discovering that its worst enemies are empirical science and a free press with conscientious investigative reporters. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation...

There are some titles on this list I'd regard as fantasy and/or social polemics rather than science fiction, but then I'm kind of a purist when it comes to sci-fi. Ben Bova wrote (in the introduction to a 1990's UK-published science fiction short story anthology on which he'd served as editor) that ...

Best Short Stories of 2004

Ray Bradbury declined to attend a Pulitzer ceremony last year and upset not just a few left-wing academics by announcing his magnum opus, Fahrenheit 451, had nothing to do with oppression of intellectuals and censorship against literature within some futuristic dictatorial dystopia, but rather was a...

Chris OConnor wrote:My question wasn't a joke. Are you the same person?

No.

Hell was invented to keep the proles in line.

Chris OConnor wrote:psyops, are you also "PatrickSMcNally?"

Chris OConner, are you also Jethro Bodine?

"Revisionism" IS history. Without "revisionism", empirical history would be impossible. It is through the empirical practice of "revisionism" that Holocaust historians at Yad Vashem have revised the number of Auschwitz dead from their 1960's figure of four million, down...