The Mob, Vegas, and Tea

Monthly Archives: January 2010

Science Fiction 2010 update

I’m excited to announce that the University of Nevada Press will be publishing my latest short story in a Science Fiction anthology put together by editors Jarret Keene and Todd James Pierce. I mentioned this book once before here, but now we have more details. The book called “Doom Town: Tales of Near-Future Las Vegas” [...]

The science behind ‘Avatar’

I was surprised to get such a wonderful slew of responses to this interview I did with plant physiologist Jodie Holt of UC Riverside. She advised director James Cameron and others on the set of ‘Avatar.’ The real science behind science-fiction can be truly fascinating– and extensive. In Holt’s case, she created an entire encyclopedia [...]