Science fiction author birthday

Happy birthday, Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi!

Curiosity on Mars — Confirmation!

 Wheels down!

Hooray!

Update: more images here!

Continuing Curiosity about Curiosity

Anticipation ... Are you watching ?

Am listening to this in the background.

Bubbly

Image Credit: NASA

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Short: Sight — How Far in the Future?

Not short-sighted ... a short film ...  Sight .

And have you checked out Short Sharp Science lately?

Pallas the asteroid / god / crater / free e-book

Pallas's Cat

The asteroid
The Titan god
The lunar crater
It's also a book by L. Neil Smith, and it's the Phoenix Pick free e-book for this month.
Thanks to SF Signal and Grasping for the Wind for spreading the news!

(More books by L. Neil Smith on our catalogue page.)

Curiosity about Mars

Image Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech

Monday, August 6, at about 5:24 a.m. Universal time (10:31 p.m PDT) . . . Wil(l) you be watching?