Was rereading this book by Robert Heinlein. When I first read it the book seemed wrong in the way the odds of success were being calculated. The odds in the book were going up and down based on the amount of risk involved in the individual tasks currently being undertaken whereas it was already known [...]

It can be rather interesting when reading science fiction written many years ago to consider what things mentioned in the book that were considered part of the SF setting at the time the book was written that are simply a part of our everyday life now. Consider for example Robert Heinlein’s book “Space Cadet” where [...]

A recent newspaper article that I saw suggested that certain television shows have a political bias. Now in some of the instances mentioned the television show was originally based on a book. One example in particular was MASH and I can’t really understand why that particular example was included in the list of examples of [...]

I have just finished reading the eleventh and twelfth books in this series. The eleventh was the last that Robert wrote before he died and the twelfth was the first of the three that the last book has now been divided into by the person who has been asked to finish it off. One thing [...]

I have been rereading some of Janny Wurts books, mostly those from her war of light and shadow series. From what I can see there are currently eight books available with several more still to come. I currently have the first six and have just reread the first three over the past week. One thing [...]

Just reread the books “Flight of the Night Hawks” and “Into a Dark Realm” that I was given for Father’s Day last September. Purchased “Wrath of a Mad God” and another book with an Amazon voucher I was given for Christmas and it arrived in time for me to read it after I finished the [...]

A few days ago I heard a report on the radio discussing the music that was sent out on the voyager spacecraft. The craft are on their way to another galaxy according to the person on the radio. Well I giess strictly speaking that is true but at the speed they are travelling it will [...]

I have been finding a little more time to relax lately and have been doing some reading mostly rereading books I haven’t read in a while. The one new book that I have read recently is Terry Pratchett’s “Nation”. It wasn’t a bad story but it did take me most of the book trying to [...]

Many science fiction stories are set so far in the future that whatever situation they describe could at least in theory happen by that date. Surprisingly though, a lot of this science fiction contains references to events that were either in the future at the time it was written which are now past and didn’t [...]