Tor’s new website has been in beta for a bit now. I just signed up and you can too. (Sign-up is still a bit buggy – I was unable to use a password that had numerals in it.) Looks pretty good and there are already a couple of stories up – for free – by Scalzi and Stross.
Slightly related to the prior post (Ping Pong) is this rant that riffs on IO9’s bit about SF that has been bad for science. Seems I’m not the only one who’s happy to get mentioned by IO9 but not pleased with their particular take on how to present the genre.
My take? Scientific RESEARCH (read ‘legitimate research’ which is, yes, a whole other discussion) is never the culprit. The development of and engineering of the new technologies that research gives rise to can be used for both good and bad. More often than not, the negative extremes of those developments are more often fully realized than the positive extremes. Our continued existence is evidence that the bad is never as awful as it is orginally predicted to be.
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