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So last Monday I recommenced work on GUN MACHINE.  Totally forgetting that the long weekend was coming, and that I was booked to clear the upstairs of the house in prep for the massive amount of plumbing work we have to have done.  I so totally forgot that on Thursday I was cutting a few flabby bits out of the writing from the week so far, “knowing” I’d have the weekend to bring the word count up to the required 5000 over seven days.

Ha ha I’m an idiot.

I already hate the Death Bar.

However, I also wrote about 30 pages of FREAKANGELS in the last week.  So here’s a new count for you: I have seven episodes of FREAKANGELS left to write, then I’m done.  Episode 0144 is the last in the series.

The jury’s still out on whether I’m going to replace it with another webcomic project.

In the meantime, I now know what the protagonist’s name in HALF MOON is, and I think I know what at least half the story is.

• Scientists create stable, self-renewing neural stem cells
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• How Bacteria Could Generate Radio waves – Technology Review
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• Chemists fabricate ‘impossible’ material
  "When atoms combine to form compounds, they must follow certain bonding and valence rules. For this reason, many compounds simply cannot exist. But there are some compounds that, although they follow the bonding and valence rules, still are thought to not exist because they have unstable structures. Scientists call these compounds "impossible compounds." Nevertheless, some of these impossible compounds have actually been fabricated…"
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I previously mentioned Suzanne Gerber aka Miss Wurzel Tod and her ongoing attempts to get her gallery/shop going against the slings and arrows of etc.

She’s now offering paid memberships to the gallery (which doesn’t exist yet, although the premises are secured) and related services.  Consider it a Kickstarter for something that’s almost there.

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Right here:

"We’ll probably put a first man in space in about three years," Elon Musk told the Wall Street Journal Saturday. "We’re going all the way to Mars, I think… best case 10 years, worst case 15 to 20 years."

Which is big talk for an operation without a crew-rated vehicle capable of direct transLunar injection, let alone transMars injection.

Their Falcon Heavy is being touted as “the world’s most powerful rocket,” but that is a carefully relative term.  The heavy-launcher field is not what it was.  The Falcon Heavy is intended to loft payloads of 117000 pounds to Low Earth Orbit.  The Saturn V could lob 262000 pounds into LEO, and chuck 100000 pounds directly into TLI.  The Falcon Heavy is perhaps the world’s most powerful rocket right now.  No-one’s going out of town on a Falcon Heavy without a lot of staging and reassembly in orbit.  At best.

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After this one?  Twelve episodes left to go.  Good morning.  It is Friday, it is past noon, it is the new episode of FREAKANGELS:

• Primordial weirdness: Did the early universe have 1 dimension?
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God damn.  Wasn’t expecting that:

Michael Moorcock’s New Worlds Magazine

The Directors of the Daves Dream Company – Dick Jude, David Hodson, David Tamlyn, Roger Gray and Felix Jude-West – have reached an agreement with Michael Moorcock to revive the seminal science fiction magazine New Worlds. Michael has kindly agreed to lend his name to the masthead of the magazine and to contribute editorial pieces. The magazine will appear in both electronic and traditional print on paper formats and be backed up by an extensive website that will feature exclusive editorial features free to all interested readers.

For anyone who’s missed my many and various rambles on the subject: NEW WORLDS, in the late 60s, was the most groundbreaking sf magazine of the last half of the 20th Century, if not one of the most groundbreaking magazines of any kind in the way it reshaped fiction and captured invention in the culture at large.

More details at the link.

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I’ve got to say, there’s still nothing quite like journalist and critic Gary Groth picking up his hammer and his plank of wood with the nail sticking out of it again and just beating the shit out of someone.

This is warren ellis dot com. And this is the photography of Beth Hommel, which I discovered yesterday. When you click through to her site (where there are lots more photos), you’ll find an email link you can use to order prints or buy originals. Good morning.

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