SF and F Roundtable

Next Up: December 2018

A famous poet said:

When icicles hang by the wall,
And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,
And Tom bears logs into the hall,
And milk comes frozen home in pail;
When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foul,
Then nightly sings the staring owl,
"Tu-whit, to-who!"—

A merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.

It may be the holidays but winter, too, is upon us.

Next Up: November 2018

Autumn, real autumn, begins.

Next Up: October 2018

Ghouls, ghasties, and things that go bump in the night; Halloween, too.

Next Up: September 2018

Better late than never, but better not late. Here come the hurricanes.

Next Up: August 2018

The dog days, under Sirius, are upon us.

Sirius rises late in the dark, liquid sky
On summer nights, star of stars,
Orion's Dog they call it, brightest
Of all, but an evil portent, bringing heat
And fevers to suffering humanity.

The Iliad.

Next Up: July 2018

Oumuamua is a comet, neither an alien space ship nor an asteroid.

“We think this is a tiny, weird comet,” said lead author Marco Micheli, from the European Space Agency (ESO), in a press release. “We can see in the data that its boost is getting smaller the farther away it travels from the Sun, which is typical for comets.”

Next Up: June 2018

June is busting out all over.

Next Up: May 2018

Trala, it's May, with blossoms everywhere and rockets on their way.

Next Up: April 2018

April, the month of flowers, showers, and fools.
A successful SpaceX Iridium 5 Launch, https://youtu.be/18-TJ133w70, closes out March.

Next Up: March 2018

Almost spring, and the New Space Age may come with a side serving of Cold War.