Another short story I found in my dream journal
"It's more comfortable but will take some getting used to," said the butcher. "Until the day it appeared, we had no idea what we were...
Why you, driver, have never stopped at a stop sign either; according to me, a cyclist
This is totally off-topic but just something that I think about a lot when biking around Oakland. Yesterday, I saw that once again a very...
The Limits of Knowledge
I think in many ways, I'm still reeling from the loss of my most regular outlet, now.space, as a freelancer. I now spend my days picking...
Here comes some more about aliens
I've always wanted to unpack the biases and assumptions that we have in thinking about extraterrestrial civilizations. The entire premise...
I swear I'm an optimist
There's nothing that riles my feathers more than when people suggest that space exploration is going to be this wonderful fun adventure,...
Time, as a symptom of love
How do we deal with the passage of time? I'm not sure that anyone has yet come up with the perfect method. The seeds for this story were...
How it all began
Continuing in my project to republish all of my favorite now.space stories, I turn to the beginning. The reason I started working for the...
I spend too much time thinking about aliens
I spend too much time thinking about aliens—what they'll be like, whether we'll ever be able to understand them, why everything we...
The story behind stories
Well it's time to start this thing off. Last month, one of the best space news websites that I have had the privilege of writing for,...