CONTRARY BRIN

== First: Sad News == Though expected, the  passing of author Iain Banks  came as a shock and a blow.  I first met Iain in London, where...

Poverty and violence are decreasing worldwide, at truly amazing rates. And of course - as we have seen - this fact seems anathema to grouche...

First, before getting down to science, congratulations to my bro Kim Stanley Robinson, for winning this year's Nebula Award for best nov...

Amid fretful resignation, we learn of the likely loss of the  magnificent Kepler mission ... which discovered as many as three thousand plan...