... merely a small part. Science fiction can vault far into the future or deep into the past.But even more fascinating for the writer (and the reader) of science fiction is the way these ideas can be ... writersof sciencefiction are the scouts, the explorers, the pathfinders who ventureout ahead and look over the landscape, then send back stories that warn of the harsh desert up ahead, the thorny ... matter. But they will not be accepted by the sciencefiction audience as science fiction. They may be published, readand enjoyed as SF or fantasy. But if you are trying to write science fiction, you...
... me that they have decided they want to bewriters, and they’ll get started as soon as they have moretime, or when they have their study fixed up, or when theyget a new computer, or when they can ... to fill the basket. The innies and outies fairly fly together.I calculated all kinds of things with this theory. The firstthing I calculated was the rate of disintegration of the muon and the neutron. ... scientistswhom the others all respect, because they bring a certainbreadth, a largeness of vision, yet also think precisely. Theyask good questions. They know the latest. They never eatlunch...
... if he knew the origin of every animal in the pound. “That one came from the desert. Someone found the three of them roaming around and brought them in. “They had no mom or dad with them. Not ... woman, and a child. The embossed bronze plaque on the monument reads, The Donner Party Memorial.” I wonder if theghost that Mrs. Waldo saw last week is the woman in the bronze sculpture? ... desert of the American Southwest, they encounter many spirits—some good, some evil. Out West the family seeks out the paranormal, hunting ghosts with the latest, most sophisticated devices. Their...
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... grips with the material. They are deer in the headlights.Paraphrasing for someone like me helps them learn thatthey can figure it out, because I won’t let them off the hooktill they hazard ... physics, let us say. Then, when they have to do it,they can only sit there in agony looking at the pieces ofpaper—agonizing but not progressing, because they have solittle hope that they never actually ... left, slamming the door.That evening when the family came home, all the silverwas spread on the dining room table and the writer washard at work, polishing forks. “It began to bother me,” heexplained.Writers...
... scientistswhom the others all respect, because they bring a certainbreadth, a largeness of vision, yet also think precisely. Theyask good questions. They know the latest. They never eatlunch ... percent.”Then I remember the 9 percent. It was like a predictionfor me: I went home and got this theory that says the neu-tron decay should be off by 9 percent, and they tell me the next morning ... “un-sure,” even when they are sure (in the ordinary sense), becausetheir idea of truth is so lofty. Also, they feel responsible notto scare the public.I well remember from the early 1980s not...
... the ghost- type, sector-based images were the only imaging technology going. Ghost images are writ-ten sector-by-sector to the disk drive similar to the application of a file system through the ... additional files within the imageand preserve the foundation of the image. The sector-based ghost -type images are highly invasive and willerase every bit of data that resides on the drive. This has ... sector-by-sector write is also the sole reason that theghost image must be placed on a drive that hasidentical or very similar characteristics to the drive on which theghost Image was created. File-based...
... past the point where I paid it any mind. So I sat and waitedwhile she finished.Finally, she pulled out the page, gathered it togetherwith one or two others and, still not looking up, passedthem ... did—no knitted brows, just the blank screen of her face, the outside world absent. For a moment, the room lay still. Until, abruptly: “Oh, yes,ForewordFor my father,who would have been so ... too quickly said after reading it, thenpaused. I was a freelance writer, of the perpetually strug-gling sort, had done some assignments for Elise, andsought others. Elise was just a few years...
... one way or the other, sitting beside her at her desk, the manuscript on the sliding desk tray between us, I learned.I can attest to the wisdom of the writerly injunctionsyou’ll find in these pages ... education, or interest in it. Science writers and editors needn’t start off knowingmuch science. Some of the best of them do, but some of the best of them don’t. They must, though, be able to ... dismem-ber them, turn them inside out, or obliterate them alto-gether. They signify, at some level, that your literary expres-sion is tedious or crude, your ideas silly, boring, wrong, oroff the...
... always have the reader in mind, not only as they writebut also in the finding out that comes before. They dotheir research with integrity, digging deep, and they writewith the same care. They connect ... ones. The harder the firing ,the stronger the pathway. That is why memo-ries from combat or other trauma can remain so vivid andtrip so easily. The more a pathway gets used, the stronger the connection. ... interesting about how the worldworks, and then another something, and another, and an-other. For the rest of your working life, you will get paid totalk to people and pass along the great stuff...
... spot the best mentors, like the best parents and the best shrinks, because their former protégés are out theredoing the work. They do not hang around being gratefuland looking for approval. There ... me that they have decided they want to bewriters, and they’ll get started as soon as they have moretime, or when they have their study fixed up, or when theyget a new computer, or when they can ... fact, follow the rules they will give you if you ask whythey do what they do. Rather, experts are persons to whomevery case is a special case because they’ve seen so many thatthey simply know....
... arrives from the otherdirection: from outside the world of research, in the formof a question, observation, or piece of news.To under-stand the phenomenon then brings you back to science. Uncover ... makingthemselves sick. And there were people who were skin andbones yet would not eat because they saw themselves as fat.Eventually, they could not eat, and they sometimes died.Well!We sat there ... that, on the day after Sep-tember 11, 2001, his taste in music changed. “I always had the car radio on a rock station,” he said. Then the day after the Twin Towers fell, he got into the car and...
... needs. For example: the Insured, the Uninsured, the Doctor, the Insurance Company, the Taxpayer, the Hospital, the Residents and Medical Stu-dents, the Medical Teachers, the Makers of Medical ... which is the topic ofthis chapter. But first, let me recommend one more attitude: The science writer and the scientist are allies, sharing acommitment to science and the public understandingthereof—upon ... decisions. Each party brings special expertiseto the table .The science writer knows how to translate science for the public, while the scientist knows the sci-ence. Whenever you start writing about...
... for the other person and the fascinating things you are about tohear. As you walk through the door, mentally give yourtroubles a kiss and skootch them over. They will wait.Once in the room, there’s ... too. The researcher will not mind. In fact, the better the scientificteam, the more the leaders seem to want to credit the juniorResearchand the Interview53large, basic chunk of knowledge; the ... about either thescience or the research strategy or both.How, precisely, was the research performed? You want toknow at about this level: “We do this because A, then that tocreate B. Then we...