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My 2015 Planetary Awards Nominations
Originally posted on Planetary Defense Command:
The 2015 Planetary Awards have three categories open for nominations: shorter story (including novelettes and novellas), traditionally published novel, and self-published / small press novel. It wasn’t too hard for me to find a short story nominee. I’ve read a dozen 2015 science fiction magazines as part of my…
Centauri Dreams:Space Habitats Beyond LEO: A Short Step Towards the Stars
Posted: 08 Jan 2016 08:53 AM PST Building a space infrastructure is doubtless a prerequisite for interstellar flight. But the questions we need to answer in the near-term are vital. Even to get to Mars, we subject our astronauts to radiation and prolonged weightlessness. For that matter, can humans live in Marsโ light gravity […]