OK I filled out that profile thingie. Not surprised to learn i was the only one listing Norstralia as a favorite book. I did find one other person intested in the music of Toshiko Akioshi, a really great big band leader and composer (big band, quartet and solo piano music) from Japan.
So anyway to repeat..

I'm a 53 year old male, white and tired, with a family, job that is pretty engaging most of the time, wonderful wife and kids, living the middle of the great American Era.

Looking for distractions on the way to oblivion.

The expansion of the universe appears to be accelerationg. It is not my hearing going bad, you are just furhter away from me than you used to be.

So lets make the most of the moments given and try not to spend them complaining about how I can't sleep like I used to.

I will get back to you right after I go get a nice cup of coffee....
I wonder if any one said that in the world trade towers just as the jets crashed into the bulding.

And always remember you are not totally indispensible where you work... each of us is just indispensable to the universe, without us observing, does it exist?

Its Big and its Blinking..

What is The Big Blink? The Big Blink was the mysterious way to communicate between planets in the SciFi works of Cordwainer Smith. It is never described beyond the evocative name. I see a large searchlight with shutters that flashes light some how across across space, maybe through sub space. It would be like the ones used in a thousand World War II movies to create a mood for the ships of the fleet moving out of port to start the battle to end all battles. Since Smith was in World War II this may be what he thought of too.

Every good SciFi book that takes place in the future with travel between planets needs a way to talk instanty to each other but I think that it may be that we learn how to talk across the stars long before we ever figure out how to get out there.
Anyway this is just a first post, to set a little bit of the scene.

I am a big fan of Cordwainer Smith and his science ficiton. I have done my best to find every thing he wrote, and I belive i have seen every story mentiond in collections along with Norstralia, his novel. But this is not all l like. I am interested in any scince fiction that tries to give a hint of what might lie ahead in the future. I like to think of it as Trasnformative Fiction. And I will be blogging about that. I also love a good story even if mankind goes to the dogs and rots. I love some cyber punk, some magical fantasy, but the must be imaginative and well written,a nd so much out there is either one or the other.

Cordwainer Smith was one writer who managed to be both.