Rocketpunk Manifesto

This is a test. In the event of actual content (not promised, but implied!) this is where you will find it.  Meanwhile, given the date, this...

Two hundred and forty-one years ago today, a maritime hegemony ran into some heavy going. Squalls had been building for a year, and the he...

A century, a year, and a day ago, giants clashed across the North Sea. It was the single grand set-piece engagement of the big gun bat...

In our last exciting episode we visited Trantor , or at least a city world that could pass for Trantor, an ecumenopolis of a trillion p...

As Earth awaits the official debut of America's nightmare comedy, this might be a good time to talk about other planets. So here we ...

Seventy years ago, a nuclear weapon was used against human targets for the first time. Seventy years ago less three days, one was used fo...

Do the human roles in space include piloting spacecraft in the traditional sense of maneuvering them via direct control inputs, AKA handfl...