Book Review: THE LAST ASTRONAUT by David Wellington

Some books grab me by title alone. As someone whose life has been spent very emotionally involved with the fortunes of the United States’ space program, I felt positively yanked by David Wellington’s The Last Astronaut. An actual last astronaut is something that I fervently hope never actually exists except in the extremely long-term “heat […]

Aliens: Will They Come For Us (in the Dark)?

If you haven’t been paying attention to science lately, then you might have missed out on a lot of talk about why aliens might visit us.  Not to say hello and give us warp drives and all that fun stuff.  No.  They’ll show up to get rid of us, because we’re too dangerous to exist […]