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David Brin is a scientist and author whose future-oriented novels include Earth, The Postman, and the Hugo award winning best-sellers Startide Rising and The Uplift War. (The Postman was released as a major film in 1998.) He is also known as a premiere commentator on modern technological trends and their effects on society. Brin’s non-fiction…
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Busby wanders into the lab wearing wrap-around pink shades and a plaid bathrobe over shorts, flip-flops, and a T-shirt that reads “MA HUMPS.” He finds a chair at one of the holotables and settles into it with a happy sigh. Tilsworth is meanwhile standing near the holotable, a large sheaf of papers on a clipboard…
CAPE CANAVERAL, EARTH – The theoretical faster-than-light drive now in development aboard Ulm Station now has a name. According to Bob Busby, CEO of Spark, the propulsion system is called the Tilsworth-Cooke Drive, after the two primary scientists leading its development. Busby expects to see a presentation about the status of the project from the…
Omar Panderyn is, at the moment, strapped into one of the station chairs, observing the performance statistics of the solar arrays. “Not bad,” he says. “We won’t freeze to death tonight.” Kinako looks in from the Lab Compartment, expression quizzical. “…ahh, I should -hope- not?” She says, apparently carefully measuring whether Mr. Panderyn is being…
