Welcome to the weekend, first up a question, what are you currently reading? Let me know in the comments below or on my Facebook page,  The BistroMath , I'm interested in knowing. I'm just about to finish off Legacy (First Colony Book 3) by Ken Lozito , which has been an interesting military science fiction series, I've really enjoyed it. I have a classic The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett   lined up next and am slowly working my way through another classic The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis . In the article first up this week, Nature asked six prominent sci-fi writers to reflect on what the genre has to offer at the end of an extraordinary year (2017). It's an interesting read. We also look at the possibility of getting a Star Trek replicator, or at least it's forerunner, in the near future plus some more book, movie and space related stuff. So when it's time to relax this weekend, grab your favourite beverage and have a read of the following artic...

Welcome once again, this week there are two articles on writing science fiction. Both Angus McIntyre (author of The Warrior Within ) and Richard Morgan (author of Altered Carbon ) share where they got inspiration for their stories. There's also an update on a real life space station nation in the making and some discussion about e-Readers and Amazon reviews. Some interesting sfuff if you're interested in reading. So when it's time to relax this weekend, grab your favourite beverage and have a read of the following articles.

An Old Story Set a thousand years into the future, Issac Asimov imagines an overcrowded Earth where humanity is packed like sardines into large domed mega-cities with a ridged social structures. The huge population has created a strain on Earths remaining resources and in order to allievate that we set out to colonize the galaxy but this only created a bigger problem. Humanity has now split into two factions, those who stayed behind, Earthmen, and those who ventured out into the galaxy, Spacers. Spacers have what Earthmen need, resources and Earthmen have what Spacers need, a large population needed for a work force. After utilising the positronic brain to create Robots and fulfil the need for a larger workforce, Spacers believe themselves to be far superior to the timid stay-at-home Earthmen. When Spacers return to Earth, 'take control' and release Robots into Earths workforce their already strained relations fray even further. Robots are cheap labour and are taking ...