space travel

August 10, 2018

Book 18: Farmer in the Sky

Book Reviews character development, interplanetary immigration, Red Planet, Robert A. Heinlein, Space Cadet, space travel, terraforming

Robert A. Heinlein’s Farmer in the Sky is a compelling story about one boy’s struggle to make it on Ganymede.

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June 26, 2018

Exploration: Earth & Space

Sci-Fi Themes exploration, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Lost Horizon, Red Planet, Space Cadet, space travel, The Martian Chronicles

Science fiction is the genre of ideas, curiosity and truth. Exploring Earth and space are quests for all of those.

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June 14, 2018

Book 17: The Martian Chronicles

Book Reviews bureaucracy, colonialism, human nature, loneliness, Mars, Martians, Ray Bradbury, science fiction, space travel

The Martian Chronicles is a classic by Ray Bradbury that explores the colonization of Mars and the various paranormal, emotional and very human problems encountered therein.

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September 28, 2017

Book 12: Foundation

Book Reviews civilization, Galactic Empire, Isaac Asimov, psychohistory, religion, science fiction, space travel

Isaac Asimov’s Foundation is a study in culture, history, and civilization.

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March 2, 2017

Trappist-1 Discovery

Science Fact exoplanets, Interstellar, planetary systems, space travel, Trappist-1

My thoughts on the discovery of seven planets that could support life in the Trappist-1 system!

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February 15, 2017

Book 10: Out of the Silent Planet

Book Reviews aliens, artificial gravity, C. S. Lewis, character development, exploitation colonialism, first contact, human nature, ideology, mythology, space travel, Space Trilogy, worldbuilding

My review of the novel Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis, the 10th book on my sci-fi list. 

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April 25, 2016

Breakthrough Starshot

Science Fact Interstellar, space travel, spacecraft

If I may, I’d like to take a moment to talk about science fact today rather than science fiction.

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